Mahdi Ganjavi’s take on Where Words Defeat Bullets (Compiled by Mansour Noorbakhsh, Asemana Books, 2026)

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 national and linguistic borders. What distinguishes this volume is not only its political urgency, but its insistence that Iran’s struggle is already embedded in a global poetics of resistance.

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https://asemanamagazine.substack.com/p/global-poetics-as-archive-memory