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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Niloufar Talebi |
| ISBN: | 1556437129 9781556437120 |
| OCLC Number: | 179834517 |
| Language Note: | Contains English and Persian parallel text. |
| Description: | xxvi, 230 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Notes on selection -- Notes on translation -- Red rose 1 -- Red rose 2 -- Grayest port -- Ghosts -- Two poems / Amir-Hossein Afrasiabi, b 1934 (Netherlands) -- Yearning for Saari 1 -- Sketch 4 -- Sketch 13 -- Sketch 25 -- Waking dreams 3 -- Waking dreams 6 -- Waking dreams 7 -- Because of boredom / Mina Assadi, b 1943 (Sweden) -- Conversation in the dark -- Point and line / Nader Naderpour, 1929-2000 (US) -- Name stone -- Bosom stones (3) -- Lipbrimmings (4) / Yadollah Roya'i, b 1932 (France) -- To the aged mulberry branch -- In a thousand years -- Song -- Losing -- Image of kindness / Esma'il Kho'i, b 1938 (UK) -- Many happy returns -- Four springs / Partow Nooriala, b 1946 (US) -- Narcissus flower -- Night -- To a snail / Majid Naficy, b 1952 (US) -- Tomorrow -- Bird is a bird -- Saturday night dinner -- Revenge -- Tanka for loneliness / Abbas Saffari, b 1951 (US) -- My mother did not become beautiful (excerpt) / Reza Farmand, b 1956 (Denmark) -- Dead dear one -- I hang myself / Saghi Ghahraman, b 1957 (Canada) -- Book of fears 1 -- Book of fears 27 -- Book of fears 30 -- Book of fears 41 -- Book of fears 45 / Jamshid Moshkani, b 1958 (Sweden) -- If you danced the wind -- Barefoot on nightvelvet / Behzad Keshmiripour, b 1958 (Germany) -- Seasonless years (excerpt) -- Downfall on the horizon (excerpt) -- Icarus (excerpt) -- Letter to father / Shahrouz Rashid, b 1960 (Germany/US) -- Untitled 19 -- One must not sleep with Juliet and not be Romeo 37 -- AntiPoem 2 / Naanaam, b 1966 (Canada) -- Moving sale -- Post-Cinderella -- Half-bottle -- Song of a forbidden woman / Granaz Moussavi, b 1973 (Australia) -- Gravequake -- Love is lemony -- Revolution -- Song of ruin / Ziba Karbassi, b 1974 (UK) -- Sticky dream of a banished butterfly (excerpt) / Maryam Huleh, b 1978 (Sweden) -- My death -- Come what may -- Woman seeking man -- Majnun -- Tree / Mana Aghaee, b 1973 (Sweden) -- Partial list of Iranian poets around the world -- Acknowledgments. |
| Series Title: | Scala translation series |
| Responsibility: | edited and translated by Niloufar Talebi ; translation assistance from Zack Rogow and Daniel O'Connell. |
Abstract:
From the Publisher: Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran and My Uncle Napoleon, but the country's strong poetic tradition remains little known. This anthology remedies that situation with a rich selection of recent poetry by Iranians living all around the world, including Amir-Hossein Afrasiabi: "Although the path / tracks my footsteps, / I don't travel it / for the path travels me." Varying dramatically in style, tone, and theme, these expertly translated works include erotic divertissements by Ziba Karbassi, rigorously formal poetry by Yadollah Royaii, experimental poems by Naanaam, powerful polemics by Maryam Huleh, and the personal-epic work of Shahrouz Rashid. Eclectic and accessible, these vibrant poems deepen the often limited awareness of Iranian identity today by not only introducing readers to contemporary Iranian poetry, but also expanding the canon of significant writing in the Persian language. Belonging offers a glimpse at a complex culture through some of its finest literary talents.
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