LEADER 03194nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910808048103321 005 20240405030746.0 010 $a0-8214-4249-X 035 $a(CKB)2440000000014105 035 $a(EBL)1773372 035 $a(OCoLC)889675523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000375946 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11267775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375946 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10328184 035 $a(PQKB)11291693 035 $a(OCoLC)712979947 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1773372 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10246288 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1773372 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000014105 100 $a20070814d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDear Regime $eletters to the Islamic republic : poems /$fRoger Sedarat 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (87 p.) 225 1 $aHollis Summers Poetry Prize 300 $a"Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize"--Jkt. 311 $a0-8214-1775-4 311 $a0-8214-1774-6 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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) 327 $aEssential 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) 330 $a In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of "the axis of evil." Iranianon his father's side, Sedarat explores the effects of the Islamic Revolution of 1979-including censorship, execution, and pending war-on the country as well as on his understanding of his own origins. Written in a style that is as sure-footed as it is experimental, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic confronts the past and current injustices of the Iranian government while 410 0$aHollis Summers Poetry Prize 607 $aIran$vPoetry 676 $a811/.6 700 $aSedarat$b Roger$f1971-$01613357 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808048103321 996 $aDear Regime$93957822 997 $aUNINA