I Want Something Other Than Time Holly Pester Strangers in Light Coats is

Strangers in Light Coats is the third collection of Zaqtan's poetry to appear in English

In the ever-expansive margins of dominant literary culture

A musical celebration of the garden

full of correspondence and confession

Mark Nowak

I Want Something Other Than Time Holly Pester Strangers in Light Coats isLewis Freedman Across a series of sixty four poems, each titled with the eponymous refrain, I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self identicalitythe distance between the self and the self that recognizes the selfinto the socio political sphere as a problem of temporality, as the work of our shared subjects in perceiving and projecting pasts, futures, presents.