*A New English Grammar Kader Abdolah part antipolitical manifesto ("the war

part antipolitical manifesto ("the war is too close / for revolution to be understood")

With great precision and abundant insight

an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard

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In his many published books

*A New English Grammar Kader Abdolah part antipolitical manifesto ("the warJeff Dolven The poems in *A New English Grammar begin from the bad sentences in traditional grammar, the ones marked with an asterisk in the handbooks. They are experiments in making a new language where the counterexample*he had had gone, *weve got any milk, *he was recognizing hercan be exemplary, and therefore also experiments in imagining new worlds. Each poem is accompanied by an exacting, authoritative, intermittently slant facing page