The Light That Burns Us
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Author: Jazra Khaleed
Publisher: World Poetry Books (2024)
Born in Chechnya in 1979, Khaleed is a poet who seems very Greek and not Greek at all. Employing elegant rhythms, contemporary street speech, and flashes of Byzantine and New Testament Greek, his poetry reflects a refined erudition and control that Greek readers have trouble equating with a man named Jazra. Khaleed's poems—written at times from a very personal perspective, and at others from that of an objective outsider, but always disruptive, vehement, electrifying—tear the untroubled reader back to a reality that may well be dangerous.