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- Ghazal Games: Poems
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Ohio University Press
summary
As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classical Persian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhaps best 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. v
- Ghazal Game #1
- pp. 1-2
- Sonnet Ghazal
- p. 3
- Inverted Ghazal
- p. 5
- For My Beloved
- p. 11
- Salads Are for Girls
- p. 12
- Martyrs of Iran
- pp. 16-17
- Chemotherapy
- p. 18
- Vertical Ghazal
- p. 19
- My Father’s Face
- pp. 20-21
- The Goddamn Scale
- p. 24
- Ghazal Game #7: Tic Tac Toe
- pp. 28-29
- Protest Ghazal #1
- p. 31
- Protest Ghazal #2
- p. 32
- Protest Ghazal #3
- p. 33
- Ghazal for Neda
- p. 34
- Perfect Translation
- p. 35
- Gazelle in a Ghazal
- pp. 42-43
- Dramatic Crime Scene Ghazal
- pp. 49-50
- Chador Bat, a Qasideh Ballad
- pp. 54-55
- Ghazal Game #11: Spin the Bottle
- pp. 56-57
- Mixed Metaphor
- p. 63
- Found Ghazal
- p. 64
- Disease of Self
- p. 65
- Vampire God
- pp. 66-67
- Trapped in Form
- p. 68
- Jar in Shiraz
- p. 69
Additional Information
ISBN
9780821443750
Related ISBN(s)
9780821419502
MARC Record
OCLC
733290968
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No