Earlier this week I remarked on Twitter (X, whatever) that I don’t really get ghazals, in the standard English form in which they have become very popular in the last twenty years or so. (And they are extremely popular — there’s one in pretty much every issue of all the poetry magazines I read in English.1) Despite their popularity, I couldn’t think of o…
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