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Standing on Earth (Paperback)
Mohsen Emadi; Translated by Lyn Coffin
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In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi
charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery
and a child's love of language. Lyn Coffin's translations from the
Persian allow Emadi's poems to inhabit the English language as
their own, as the poet recasts his earliest memories and deepest
loves over the forges of being "someone who goes to bed in one city
and wakes up in another city." Alternating between acceptance and
despair, tenderness and toughness, he writes, "I wanted to be a
physicist," but "Your kisses made me a poet." Mohsen Emadi is a
powerful witness to life in the present times, and Standing on
Earth introduces a major world poet to an English-language
readership for the first time.
Selected and translated by Lyn Coffin
Introduction by Joseph Brodsky
Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova's work—from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the Stalinist purges—has been newly translated by the American poet Lyn Coffin. In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful in reproducing the directness and striking effects characteristic of Akhmatova's poetry, and she is the first to remain true to Akhmatova's rhyme and cadence. The poems are prefaced by a thoughtful introduction by the poet Joseph Brodsky, a friend of Akhmatova in her later years.
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