Contains Mild Peril Mohamed Salah al-Azab we seek contributions from the

we seek contributions from the present and the past

• Elsa Morante

Dinah is forced into a panicked flight to save herself

João de Jesus Paes Loureiro was born in a small town in Pará

and an excerpt from his new novel in English translation

Contains Mild Peril Mohamed Salah al-Azab we seek contributions from theContains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate ? political, environmental, economic ? engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being