Faust by Sandeep Parmar
PBS Autumn Choice 2022 Robert MacFarlane Childlike in its simplicity

Childlike in its simplicity

Kit Fan's As Slow As Possible is a book of changes

and a dozen chapbooks from various presses

elegiac collection

And just as there is no one way to read the sea

Faust by Sandeep Parmar <b><br>PBS Autumn Choice 2022</b> Robert MacFarlane Childlike in its simplicityGoethes version of the scholars fateful wager with Mephistopheles inspires the central sequence of Faust, mapped onto the figure of the migrant who flees a postcolonial legacy of fire, displacement and climate destruction for a life of eternal striving. As Parmar asks in The Winnowing Shovel: How is striving itself, as an idea built into literary models and real life stereotypes of the good immigrant or the model minority, how might strivingin the