Ghazal games :: poems /

As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classicalPersian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhapsbest be described as "Wallace Stevens meets Rumi." Perhaps most striking i...

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1. Verfasser: Sedarat, Roger, 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung:As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classicalPersian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhapsbest be described as "Wallace Stevens meets Rumi." Perhaps most striking is the poet's use of the ancient ghazal form in the tradition of the classical masters like Hafez and Rumi to politically challenge the Islamic Republic of Iran's continual crackdown on protesters. Not since the late Agha Shahid Ali has a poet translated the letter as well as the spirit of this form into Engl.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 71 pages)
ISBN:9780821443750
0821443755

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