Ghazal Games : Poems
Roger Sedarat
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 English, using musicality and inventive rhyme to extend the reach of the ghazal in a new language and tradition.
Год:
2011
Издание:
1
Издательство:
Ohio University Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
80
ISBN 10:
0821443755
ISBN 13:
9780821443750
Файл:
EPUB, 630 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2011