Riotous and fizzing with language, the poetry of Golnoosh Nour boldly
explores what it is to be utterly alive and ecstatically, yet
complicatedly, in desire. -Richard Scott
Impure Thoughts is a dizzying dance through impurity's several selves.
Half bal masqué, half Grand Guignol, Nour confronts the limits of desire
with an almost uncanny intensity of focus. Even at their most tender and
elegiac these poems tremble with the white-hot heat of libidinal energy
and gleam with oracular fury. -Fran Lock