The Baghdad Split
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In issue 4.24, the last issue of the year, Youssef Rakha examines memory and location in “The Baghdad Split.” Charles Dodd White tells a story of climbing, and perhaps falling, in “Ascent.” Kate Millar interrogates the connectivity of language, and investigates how language itself is connected to spiritual matters in four poems beginning with “Alternating Ghazal.”
Images in this issue are eye miniatures from the 19th century.
The fad for eye miniatures in England began when the future King George IV fell in love with Maria Fitzherbert, a woman unsuitable to his rank (widowed, Catholic, a commoner). He covertly sent her a painting of his eye with a proposal to marry. The overture was welcome, and after a long and tumultuous relationship, he was buried with a painting of her eye. From Public Domain Review, text by Sasha Archibald.
