What's The Difference Between a Person and a Prayer?: On Saba Keramati's Self-Mythology

What's The Difference Between a Person and a Prayer?: On Saba Keramati's Self-Mythology

“What have I inherited?Is it salt?”I choose to begin with these opening lines of Saba Keramati’s poem, “Questions for the Outward Curve of My Stomach, Where I Sometimes Rest My Hand and Pretend to Be Pregnant” because it looks simultaneously at the lineage of the past and the fable of the future. The speaker goes on to inquire, “Where does it all go, if I don’t have a daughter?”—a question the collection hinges on. Whether this daughter is conce…