|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
|
Poems (Pamphlet)
Azita Ghahreman; Translated by Maura Dooley, Elhum Shakerifar
|
R100
Discovery Miles 1 000
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of
poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. Born in Mashhad
in 1962 and based in Sweden since 2006, Ghahreman is the author of
five highly acclaimed collections. Her poems are lyrical and
intimate, addressing themes of loss, exile and female desire, as
well as the changing face of her country. Negative of a Group
Photograph runs the gamut of Ghahreman's experience: from her
childhood in the Khorasan region of south-eastern Iran to her exile
to Sweden, from Iran's book-burning years and the war in Iraq to
her unexpected encounters with love. The poems in this illuminating
collection are brought to life in English by the poet Maura Dooley,
working in collaboration with Elhum Shakerifar. Farsi-English dual
language edition co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.
Tomas Transtromer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011.
He was then the first Swedish writer to become a laureate for
almost forty years. This anthology takes an intercontinental
perspective on the poetry of Transtromer. It raises the question of
how his poetry is actually perceived in continents predominated by
other literary preferences. It also gives insight to the literal
appearance of his poetry in essentially different languages.
Transtromer International features a seminar of world poets,
placing his poetry in context by relating to their countries of
origin: Columbia, Iran and Bangladesh. Angela Garcia, Azita
Ghahreman, Anisur Rahman and Kristian Carlsson-i.e. the main
seminar committee-also present one poem each inspired by
Transtromer. And a select working group has translated sample poems
of Transtromer into several world languages, printed alongside the
Swedish originals. Most translations are done exclusively for this
anthology, and in addition to some new English versions, there are
poems in Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Japanese, Romani, Russian, North
Sami, Somali and Spanish.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.