Dying in a Mother Tongue - Couverture souple

Chamankar, Roja

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1477317805 ISBN 13 : 9781477317808

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2018

Synopsis

This collection of poetry by the celebrated southern Iranian poet and filmmaker Roja Chamankar (b. 1981) introduces English-speaking readers to one of the most accomplished and well-loved poets of her generation. Chamankar’s work blends surrealism and the southern coastal landscape of the poet’s upbringing with everyday experiences in rapidly urbanizing Tehran. While locating herself in the modernist tradition of Iranian poets like Forugh Farrokhzad and Ahmad Shamlu through form and imagery, Chamankar infuses this tradition with concerns unique to a generation that grew up in post-revolutionary Iran and endured the effects of the Iran-Iraq war. Seascapes, love and eroticism, the disconnection of modern life, and myths and fairytales figure prominently in these vivid, lyrical poems.

In the rich miniature worlds of Chamankar’s poetry, readers become privy to a range of experiences, from desire and pain to rage and humor. Sometimes abstract, other times surreal-Chamankar’s unique poetic voice, like the sea she returns to again and again, combines and sweeps these experiences to shore with assurance, strength, and beauty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roja Chamankar has published nine volumes of poetry in Persian, cowritten three books for children, and translated a collection of poems by Henri Meschonic from French into Persian. Her works have been translated into half a dozen languages, and she has won a number of national and international awards for her poetry, including the prestigious Nikos Gatsos Prize.

Blake Atwood is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477317805
• ISBN 13: 9781477317808
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible