Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles
“Part anthem, part Victorian rock ballad, these rhapsodic lyrics dazzle, documenting what it is like to be girl, doll, daughter, alive in times of atrocity in one’s homeland and one’s ancestral home. Forugh Farrokhzad lines the skeleton of this book, with traces of Lucie Brock-Broido’s numinous syntax lingering between the pages. ‘My life is happening again,’ the speaker says, and it is such voyeuristic luck to witness their life.” - Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fracture Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. An Iranian American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New England Review, Passages North, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.