To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova / translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali Clyma Est Mort architecture and popular culture

architecture and popular culture

Writing from the body

but part of a somewhat cohesive whole

human or vegetal body––prompt such queries

To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova / translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali Clyma Est Mort architecture and popular cultureThe first English language collection from the rising star of a new generation of Kazakh writers. Baqytgul Sarmekova offers wry, darkly humorous portraits of ordinary Kazakh people held in the snare of patriarchy, cultural tradition, and postsocialist upheaval Mirgul Kali deftly recreates the atmosphere of these everyday tensions as they quietly seethe just below the surface. PEN Heim judges citation Vivid, hilarious and unsettling, the tragicomic