The Book of Advice Marleen Slooff

The Book of Advice Marleen SlooffGhazal Mosadeq The Book of Advice, an experiment in self translation, stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales. Originally written in Persian between 2018 2020, the book now speaks in both English and Persian, opening at once from the back and the front, in a voice both distanced and familiar. The vicissitudes of the everyday

In this follow-up to her award-winning collection

Essays calls on thinkers and writers to move beyond this linear thinking into the realm of what an essay by someone like Montaigne might do

the distorted seasons

and performance art—in addition to making books and running the bookshop and exhibition space for artists’ books and multiples Other Books and So in Amsterdam—his early body of work was situated precisely at the intersection of conceptual art and poetry

runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its failures

The manuscript for the publication

speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world

en ook op internet is heel wat van hem te vinden

unable to return home

As readers move from one story to another

levert een louterende reis door het hectische moderne leven op

Wie Nietzsches poëzie al wel kende