Belonging New Poetry by Iranians Around the World

Name: Belonging New Poetry by Iranians Around the World
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ISBN: 9781556437120

ISBN-10: 1556437129

ISBN-13: 9781556437120

Edition: 2008

Authors: Niloufar Talebi

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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 likeReading Lolita in TehranandMy 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…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.06" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Niloufar Talebi founded The Translation Project (www.thetranslationproject.org), whose mission is to bring contemporary Iranian literature to worldwide audiences in multiple languages and media. She lives in San Francisco. Zack Rogow has translated Colette'sGreen Wheat,Marcel Pagnol's playMarius,and other works. Dan O’Connell is an award-winning poet and the author ofDifferent Coasts, a full-length collection of poetry on the theme of alienation.



Introduction xiii


Notes on Selection xxiii


Notes on Translation xxv


Amir-Hossein Afrasiabi, b. 1934 (The Netherlands)


Red Rose 1 Red Rose 2 The Grayest Port Ghosts Two Poems



Yearning for Saari 1 Sketch 4 Sketch 13 Sketch 25 Waking Dreams 3 Waking Dreams 6 Waking Dreams 7 Because of Boredom 21 Nader Naderpour, 1929-2000 (U.S.)


Conversation in the



Name Stone Bosom Stones (3) Lipbrimmings (4) Esma'il Kho'i, b. 1938 (U.K.)


To the Aged Mulberry Branch In a Thousand Years Song Losing Image of Kindness Partow Nooriala, b. 1946 (U.S.)


Many Happy Returns Four Springs Majid Naficy, b. 1952 (U.S.)


Narcissus Flower Night To a Snail Abbas Saffari, b. 1951 (U.S.)


Tomorrow A Bird Is a Bird Saturday Night Dinner Revenge Tanka for Loneliness Reza Farmand, b. 1956 (Denmark)


My Mother Did Not Become Beautiful (excerpt)



The Dead Dear One I Hang Myself



Book of Fears 1 Book of Fears 27 Book of Fears 30 Book of Fears 41 Book of Fears 45 Behzad Keshmiripour, b. 1958 (Germany)


If You Danced the Wind Barefoot on Nightvelvet Shahrouz Rashid, b. 1960 (Germany/U.S.)


Seasonless Years (excerpt) Downfall on the Horizon (excerpt) Icarus (excerpt) Letter to Father Naanaam, b. 1966 (Canada)


Untitled 19 One Must Not Sleep with Juliet and Not Be Romeo 37 AntiPoem 2 Granaz Moussavi, b. 1973 (Australia)


Moving Sale Post-Cinderella Half-Bottle Song of a Forbidden Woman Ziba Karbassi, b. 1974 (U.K.)


Gravequake Love Is Lemony Revolution Song of



The Sticky Dream of a Banished Butterfly (excerpt)



My Death Come What May Woman Seeking



Acknowledgments