Strange Times, My Dear The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

Name: Strange Times, My Dear The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
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ISBN: 9781611457285

ISBN-10: 1611457289

ISBN-13: 9781611457285

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nahid Mozaffari, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

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When Arcade Publishingoriginally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature,the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication ofworks from countries on America’s enemies list. Arcade, along with the PENAmerican Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional andScholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American UniversityPresses, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the United States government.Their landmark case forced the Office of Foreign Assets Control to change theirregulations regarding editing and publishing literature in translation, andArcade is proud to reissue this anthology that showcases the developments…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 6.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Ahmad Karimi Hakkak is a professor of Persian literature and the director of the Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. He has written eighteen books on Persian literature, film, and culture, and is the president of the International Society for Iranian Studies.



Preface to the Second Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Prose


The Mirror



The Victory Chronicle of the Magi



Excerpt from Scorched Earth



Excerpt from Sorraya in a Coma



Ask the Migrating Birds



The Eyes Won't Take It



The Grocer of Kharzeville



Delayed Consequences of the Revolution



Excerpt from The Book of Absent People




Prose


Excerpt from Women Without Men



Satan's Stones



Ah, Istanbul



Mahbubeh and the Demon Ahl



In Another Place



Hitchcock and Agha Baji



A Little Secret



A Room Full of Dust



Excerpt from The Trial



First Love



Shatter the Stone Tooth



White Rock



Peace of Night



Poetry


Introduction



In This Blind Alley



Love Song


End of the Game


Morning


A Man with a Missing Leg



I Write, I Cross Out


If the Snake Is Domestic


And Behold


It's Time to Mow the Flowers


I Love You, Ancient Homeland



Lyrical



Outlandia


An Allusion


Bad Boy


A Spring Tale



Poetry-I



Poetry-II


Prayer of Sudden Dread


A Woman Out of Memory



Visitations


Miniature



The Terrace of Dead Fishermen


The Green Bull


Martyr's Tombstone



Tomb of Manichaeus


Labial Verse 67


Labial Verse 181


In the New Place, or Exile, a Simple Matter



From the Other Half



Requiem



Brands


I Am Human



Amorous



Wednesday in March



Wakeful Reveries


I Must Bury Him



The Republic of Hate



The Little Messenger



Saturday Night Dinner



A Bird Is a Bird


The Ax



Afghan Woman


The Sale


Selections from Walking with the Wind



Permissions


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