First Epistle

Jahan Khajavi (b. Fresno, 1986) is “the best kind of pervert” (Farid Matuk) who composes “wildly amusing and explicit queer poetry” (Hamish Bowles, Vogue) “with elements of swagger and sex” (Rob McLennan) that “luxuriates in the labor of the real” (PJ Lombardo, Tripwire) and “juggles truly absurd comedy and frank body talk with overwhelming tenderness and genuine corporeal joy” (Louis Fratino, Mousse). Khajavi’s “wickedly amorous debut” (Charlie Stuip, Grotto), Feast of the Ass (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023), is “one of the most unique books of recent memory” (Johannes Göransson), which “at once flourishes and makes a flourish of classical Persian forms” (Joyelle McSweeney).