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Rooftops of Tehran
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Artikel-Nr:
9781597091107
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2008
Seiten:
112
Autor:
Sholeh Wolpé
Gewicht:
184 g
Format:
228x154x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Sholeh Wolpé is a poet, literary translator and writer. She was born in Iran and spent most of her teen years in Trinidad and the UK before settling in the United States. Wolpé most recent awards include the 2013 Midwest Book Award and 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation prize.
¿In Sholeh Wolpe¿s Rooftops of Tehran , an unforgettable cast of characters emerges, from the morality policeman with the poison razor blade to the crow-girls flapping their black garments, from the woman with the bee-swarm tattoo emerging from her crotch to the author as a young girl on a Tehran rooftop with a God¿s eye view `hovering above a city / where beatings, cheatings, prayers, songs, / and kindness are all one color¿s shades.¿ Here is a delicious book of poems, redolent of saffron and stained with pomegranate in its vision of Iran and of the immigrant life in California. Wolpe¿s poems are at once humorous, sad, and sexy, which is to say that they are capriciously human, human even in that they dream of wings and are always threatening to take flight.¿