Parthian Stations

With witty wordplay and evocative language, this new poetry collection portrays Istanbul, the poet's home city, as a crossroads of culture on par with any international capital. The oddities of place and people lead readers away from the mundane and immerse them in an unfamiliar yet humane culture that the West is veering nearer to regarding as irrevocably "other."

John Ash is the author of The Burnt Pages, Disbelief, and To the City.

Apologia for an earlier book	p. 11
Leaving New York I	p. 12
Double vision	p. 13
Elements	p. 14
Kubadabad (arrival I)	p. 15
Stationary	p. 16
Evening I	p. 17
Drinking	p. 18
Aunt Milka I	p. 19
Gratitude	p. 20
Malediction I (Phil's dick)	p. 21
Mirror	p. 22
Four quartets	p. 23
Judith I	p. 24
Poem	p. 25
Book I	p. 26
Evening III	p. 27
Worry	p. 28
The enigma of Jan Keetman	p. 29
Souvenir	p. 30
Petersburg	p. 31
My death I	p. 32
Morris I	p. 33
Glass I	p. 34
Smoking	p. 35
Book II	p. 36
Blank	p. 37
Malediction II (arrival II)	p. 38
Inclination	p. 39
Jesus	p. 40
Refusal	p. 41
Judith II	p. 42
Ararat	p. 43
Evening III	p. 44
Betrayal	p. 45
Aunt Milka II	p. 46
Urn	p. 47
Morris II	p. 48
Time and again	p. 49
Short poems I	p. 50
Arrival III (departure)	p. 51
Kamchatka	p. 52
Vinegar	p. 53
Hero I	p. 54
Samarkand	p. 55
Short Poems II	p. 56
Junk	p. 57
Malediction III	p. 58
Ruin	p. 59
Cursed	p. 60
Short, bad imitation	p. 61
Aunt Milka III	p. 62
Shard (glass II)	p. 63
Morris III	p. 64
Leaving New York II	p. 65
Surabaya	p. 66
Terrorist (hero II)	p. 67
Recess	p. 68
Brad	p. 69
Names	p. 70
Next	p. 71
My death II	p. 72
Lover	p. 73
Passion	p. 74
Anna / Marthe	p. 75
Luxury	p. 76
Things	p. 77
Book III	p. 78
Backwards	p. 79
Judith III	p. 80
Possible	p. 81
Book IV	p. 82
Leaving New York III	p. 83
My Death III	p. 84
Leaving New York IV	p. 85
Empire	p. 86
Auguries	p. 87
God	p. 88
Glass III	p. 89
Scythopolis	p. 90
Gone	p. 91
Short poems III	p. 92
Against symbolism	p. 95
The reconstructions	p. 96
The Parthian stations	p. 97
Hotel seferis	p. 99
The bathers	p. 103
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