Deep Are These Distances Between Us - Couverture souple

Atefat–peckham, Susan; Atefat–peckham, Darius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933880961 ISBN 13 : 9781933880969

Editeur : CavanKerry Press, 2023

Synopsis

Poems that imagine Persian and Iranian American lives.

In Deep Are These Distances Between Us, Susan Atefat-Peckham troubles preconceptions of nationhood and fixed systems of power by bringing the reader into the Iranian American home, offering glimpses of familial love and intimacy. Atefat-Peckham reaches for a network of care--the foundations of which are located in the ability of these poems to evoke the rich landscape of Iranian American lives. Articulating a spirituality that has no spatial or temporal boundaries, one which travels effortlessly between life and death, this collection is a treatise on the empathy we need now more than ever.

An up-and-coming poet who died just four years after winning the National Poetry Series Award in 2000, Susan Atefat-Peckham was deeply concerned by the Islamophobic "Axis of Evil" rhetoric deployed after 9/11 and was skeptical of attempts by the United States to "democratize" the Middle East. Representing the lives of immigrants in the United States and Persians in Iran, as well as the distance that separates their experiences and the love that binds them together, Atefat-Peckham brings an important voice to that conflict--one of the family and the home, where glimpses of intimacy and care rival imperial oppression.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Susan Atefat-Peckham (1970-­­­­2004) was born as a first-generation American to Iranian parents and lived most of her life in Switzerland and the United States. She was the author of the poetry collection That Kind of Sleep and editor of the anthology of Middle Eastern writing, Talking Through the Door. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Borderlands, Prairie Schooner, International Poetry Review, Texas Review, Puerto Del Sol, Southern Poetry Review, and Northwest Review.

Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian American poet and essayist. His work has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal, Indiana Review, and in the anthology My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora. He is the author of the chapbook How Many Love Poems. Atefat-Peckham lives in Huntington, West Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CavanKerry Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933880961
• ISBN 13: 9781933880969
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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