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.
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