03197nam 2200553 a 450 991078089990332120200520144314.00-8214-4249-X(CKB)2440000000014105(EBL)1773372(OCoLC)889675523(SSID)ssj0000375946(PQKBManifestationID)11267775(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375946(PQKBWorkID)10328184(PQKB)11291693(OCoLC)712979947(MdBmJHUP)muse9456(Au-PeEL)EBL1773372(CaPaEBR)ebr10246288(MiAaPQ)EBC1773372(EXLCZ)99244000000001410520070814d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDear Regime[electronic resource] letters to the Islamic republic : poems /Roger SedaratAthens Ohio University Pressc20081 online resource (87 p.)Hollis Summers Poetry Prize"Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize"--Jkt.0-8214-1775-4 0-8214-1774-6 Acknowledgments; Part A(s If Change Were Possible); Ghost Story; Dear Regime,; Body Cleaner; In Praise of Moths; Agha D-; I Watched You Braiding Persian Violets into Your Hair; Calligraphy; Cousin Farzad's Wedding; At the Firing Squad; Athletes Make the Best Persian Pornography; Satellite of Love; AK, a Figurehead of the Revolution, Interviews the Author; Eating Chelo at Aunt Behjat's in Tehran; Prelude to a Blackout; Iranian Darwins; At the Hezbollah Recruiting Station; Dear Regime (Letters toward a Revolution); Revolutionary Reflections; Part B(ut Poetry Doesn't Make Revolutions)Essential JourneyFlying to Persia; Dowsing; Qormeh Sabzi; Khomeini's Beard; Doctor; Thigh; Haji as Stick Figure; Permissible Grapes, Forbidden Wine; This Little Haji; Jun; Adidas; Persian Haiku; Haji's Rubaiyyat; When Haji Comes to Town; Advertisement Proposal; The Hysterical Is Historical: An Interview with Haji; Farrokhzad's Paper Hat; Haji as Street Urchin; Haji's Garden; If a Body Catches Haji; Picnic; Tanboor; Reinstatement of the Rose; Part C(ontextual Notes) In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of "the axis of evil." Iranianon his father's side, Sedarat explores the effects of the Islamic Revolution of 1979-including censorship, execution, and pending war-on the country as well as on his understanding of his own origins. Written in a style that is as sure-footed as it is experimental, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic confronts the past and current injustices of the Iranian government whileHollis Summers Poetry PrizeIranPoetry811/.6Sedarat Roger1971-1494041MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780899903321Dear Regime3717370UNINA