"A Byzantine journey
Back in the days when John Ash was a rising English poet of the New York School, critics either loved his stiletto wit or loathed it as 'camp disdain.' Mr. Ash's new book, 'The Parthian Stations,' shows how a decade of living in Istanbul, studying the heritage of Byzantium and traveling in the Middle East has sharpened both his eye and the claws of his feline black comedy."
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