Behind Arthur Kayzakian’s debut collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, lies an unwritten history involving the speaker’s father, who was disappeared in the Iranian Revolution. The collection, the inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection, ostensibly centers around the speaker’s efforts to recover a stolen portrait of his father, the painting itself accruing gravity to … Continue reading “a book is the song / of the body”: Michael Collins Reads Arthur Kayzakian’s Poetry Collection The Book of Redacted Paintings