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Ali Alizadeh

Ali Alizadeh’s writings have elicited responses ranging from “brilliant” and “remarkable” to “harrowing” and “vicious.” His new novel is The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc (Giramondo Publishing, 2017). He lectures at Monash University–Melbourne.

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2017

Animals

By Ali Alizadeh

    Cute, tasty and dangerouskittens and cows, snakes and us.     Stupid                    affinity, frankly, stupidesttype of condescension. Pet you’re here to purr when my fellow humans fail me. Well, do you understand me? […]