Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora
- Title
- Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora
- Translator
- Multiple People
- Publisher
- Green Linden Press
- Place of Publication
- Grinnell, IA, United States
- Genre
- Autobiography
- Format
- Book
- Translations In This Collection
- Border
- Long Exposure
- Long Exposure IV
- Poem for Stillness
- Long Exposure V
- The Mad Corner of the Room
- Pattern
- I Did Not Expect
- Story
- Winter
- Namaz
- Exile Diary (1956-1967)
- Exile Diary
- Good Faith
- Letter
- Death as an Absentminded Lover
- The Inescapable Day
- The Lost Note
- Self-awareness
- A Woman Out of Memory
- Daf
- The World Is Shaped Like a Sphere
- Workshop
- I Gave My Face to the Scalpel
- Wine of Light
- Copy
- Five Scenes from Icarus
- Alone -
- And who?
- I Was There
- From Amsterdam to Tehran
- After the Hunt
- This Snow
- Transcripts of a Camera
- O Bejeweled Realm. . .
- Someone Like No One. . .
- Friday
- from The White Plain
- Glaucoma
- Freedom
- [poetry has washed]
- [a train]
- [poetry is free]
- [a thing called solitude]
- [poetry]
- [I have something ]
- Writing Cells
- Of the Justice of the Liver & the Guts
- Historical
- Who Killed Me?
- Caged Lion as Tapestry
- "S-N-O-W" Fall in Tehran
- Barcode
- Mickey Mouse Muslim
- Caught in a Caption
- Ecstasy
- The North, Also...
- Never
- To the Aged Mulberry Branch
- I Used to Believe
- The Orchard of the Carpet
- Last Words
- [A white foal]
- [Yellow violets]
- [Snow descends]
- [Inside the shrine]
- [Gently]
- [As the rain comes down]
- [The stray dog]
- [In the assembly of black-clad mourners]
- [A few school children]
- [The wind]
- [The autumn sun]
- [In the dim light of the switchman's lamp]
- [The more I think]
- [The train shrieks]
- From the Other Half
- Nights That Burned
- Persian
- My Father
- Life
- Ghazal 2
- It's Nothing
- And You Behind the Lace
- Of My Life
- Stoning
- Poetry Will Mean
- [What shall the wind do]
- [Nothing exists]
- [You wept for all the inmates]
- [We drink water]
- [You did to me]
- [How much night I must be]
- [Don't ask me for directions]
- Yazdgerd's Stone
- Desert Stone
- Forugh Farrokhzad's Stone
- Fardid's Stone
- Mansour's Tomb
- Sea Song #3
- Sea Song #4
- A Bird Is a Bird
- [How long until noon]
- [Of the house the roof remained]
- [Maria]
- Exiled
- Kayvaan Was a Star
- The Poet
- The False Dawn
- O Morning
- Took
- The Discoverer
- Desolation
- Miniature
- The Sound of an Encounter
- Calling for You
- From Green to Green
- Before You
- Necessity
- Freedom
- The Hour of Execution
- Medium
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Publication Month
- September
- Page Number
- l, 363
- ISBN / ISSN
- 9780999226384
- Does the translation have images?
- No
- WorldCat Link
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1256591997
- Reviews
1
Tara Bahrampour
Iranians rely on poetry to give comfort, elevate the ordinary, and illuminate the darkness. Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and its Diaspora layers the work of the masters with fresh voices, using sensual imagery to piece together a society fractured by revolution, war, and exile. Let the poets lead you into an Iran beyond the news reports-a place where tenderness and humor and bitterness and melancholia balance together like birds on a wire, intricately connected and poised to take flight.
2
Porochista Khakpour
Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora offers a profoundly satisfying journey into the poetic canon of my homeland—an anthology with an ambition, expanse, depth, and diversity that truly earns its essential tag. So many poets I was hoping would be in here are here, from contemporary icons to new luminaries, plus I got to explore several poets I had never before read. Everyone from students of poetry to masters of the form should take this ride through the soul and psyche of Iran, which endures no matter where the border, beyond whatever the boundary!
3
Neda Maghbouleh
Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and its Diaspora takes the extraordinary position that poetic arts from the homeland and diaspora should be read alongside each other. This vital book invites English-language readers to step into a lineage and tradition where poems—from playful to elegiac, prosaic to ornate—are fundamental to everyday living. It is the kind of book that requires two copies: one to give to a beloved, and one to keep for oneself.
4
Philip Metres
Between arm-flexing states, the U.S. and Iran, the past burns and the future is held hostage. In a twilight present tense, the poets emerge, sure-footed and graceful, imagining another way, another vision of being. The range of these Iranian poets is prodigious and dizzying. Sometimes they “consider the saga of a bee / humming over minefields / in pursuit of a flower," sometimes they “bring your lips near / and pour your voice / into my mouth.” Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora is a place where heartbreak and hope gather. At the shores of language, drink this bracing, slaking music.