Global Poetics as Archive: Memory, Witnessing, and Iran in Where Words Defeat Bullets
Where Words Defeat Bullets (Compiled by Mansour Noorbakhsh, Asemana Books, 2026) is not simply an anthology of solidarity; it is an experiment in global poetic witnessing. Emerging from a Toronto-based gathering yet extending across continents and histories, the collection positions poetry as both an archive of the Iranian 2026 uprising and a medium through which that history becomes legible beyond…