Staff Pick
Touching, poignant, and joyful, Mojgani's The Feather Room is still one of my favorite collections of poetry. Read the opening fable and be amazed. Recommended By Lauren S., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Science, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room, Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of magic realism, endowing his tales with a greater sense of fantasy and brightness. The work recounts loss and heartbreak while discovering lightness and beauty on the other side. Throughout the book, Mojgani opens tree trunks to reveal chandeliers. He leads us through the rooms inside himself, using poems to part curtains and paint walls. He is lifting windows to let the fantasy indoors.
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"Anis shook the dust off me and everyone else in the audience with the beauty of his words." Saul Williams, Said the Shotgun to the Head
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"Mojgani is not your typical national poetry slam champion... The playfulness, startling originality, and lyric optimism are all gravy. He's simply the best there is right now." Taylor Mali, The Last Time As We Are
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"Anis Mojgani, Andrea Gibson, you and other young poets of their talent are the future of American poetry and frankly, that fills me with joy!" Thomas Lux, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book Split Horizons
About the Author
Anis Mojgani is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A Pushcart Prize Nominee and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts Writer’s-In-The-Schools program, Anis has performed at numerous universities, festivals, and venues around the globe. His work has appeared on HBO, NPR, in the pages of Rattle magazine, and alongside Laureates Ted Kooser and Billy Collins in Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives in a white pointy house in Portland, OR, where he sometimes has a beard and sometimes does not.