Dear Regime [[electronic resource] ] : letters to the Islamic republic : poems / / Roger Sedarat
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| Autore: |
Sedarat Roger <1971->
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| Titolo: |
Dear Regime [[electronic resource] ] : letters to the Islamic republic : poems / / Roger Sedarat
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (87 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.6 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Iran Poetry |
| Note generali: | "Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize"--Jkt. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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) | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dear Regime |
| ISBN: | 0-8214-4249-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780899903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize