In the summer of 2011, I was the lucky recipient of a series of singularly wondrous missives from Farnoosh Fathi.
Above is the first one. We called them “slowtweets” as they issued via the USPS from Tassajara, located in a valley far from the internet’s reach in the Ventana Wilderness.
These “nuts” make up the beginnings of the ever-yielding poem, “News,” which you can read in its entirety on the PSA’s In their own words feature along with Farnoosh’s notes on her process, about how the clemency she rustled up to write the pieces that make up this poem “made the poem more honest, and so, more mysterious, more knowing and idiotic and wild than I could have hoped or intended.”
And you can find Farnoosh’s exquisite new book, Great Guns here.