The Forbidden : : Poems From Iran and its Exiles

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"The poems ... selected for this anthology represent the young, the old, and the ancient"--Introd.
Machine generated contents note: THE STATE OF RED -- And Behold / Simin Behbahani -- In This Dead-End Road / Ahmad Shamlou -- Death Sermon / Nader Naderpour -- The State of Red / Mandana Zandian -- Parts of a Pedestrian in a Tunnel / Rasoul Younan -- Of Sea Wayfarers / Esmail Khoi -- Blood and Ash / Nader Naderpour -- Camouflage Costumes / Granaz Moussavi -- Untitled / Shams Langeroodi -- A Mob! Tumult! / Peyman Vahabzadeh -- My House Is Cloudy / Nima Yushij -- Blood's Voice / Mohsen Emadi -- If Rising from Your Grave / Naanaam -- Death from the Window / Naanaam -- Life / Naanaam -- The Sticky Dream of a Banished Butterfly (Excerpt) / Maryam Hooleh -- Our Tears Are Sweet / Simin Behbahani -- I See the Sea / Shams Langeroodi -- You Said, It's Only Grapes / Simin Behbahani -- TRANSLATING SILENCE -- Me / Granaz Moussavi -- The Poem / Mohsen Emadi -- From "23" / Shams Langeroodi -- The Shah and Hosseinzadeh / Reza Baraheni -- Hosseinzadeh, the Head Executioner / Reza Baraheni -- Ass Poem / Reza Baraheni -- Depression / Yadollah Royai -- Petition / Nader Naderpour -- A List of Names / Partow Nooriala -- Nargess / Partow Nooriala -- Always the Same / Ahmad Shamlou -- I Did Not Expect / Ahmad Reza Ahmadi -- Of Your Uncles / Ahmad Shamlou -- 99 NAMES OF EXILE -- 99 Names Of Exile / Kaveh Bassiri -- Ghazal 2 / Nader Naderpour -- Spring Story / Nader Naderpour -- Marco Polo / Ali Alizadeh -- Red-Raft Woman / Esther Kamkar -- Map of Ashen Roads / Sholeh Wolpe' -- Memorial Day / Kaveh Bassiri -- Family of Scatterable Mines / Solmaz Sharif -- Airport / Granaz Moussavi -- BLEEDING GREEN -- From Green to Green / Sohrab Sepehri -- The Green of Iran / Sholeh Wolpe' -- Song of a Forbidden Woman / Granaz Moussavi -- At the Hamlet of Golestaneh / Sohrab Sepehri -- Summer Is a Green Story / Esther Kamkar -- A New Idea / Rumi -- Feminist / Maryam Ala Amjadi -- When a Color Stops Being a Color, Becomes Something Else Completely / Shideh Etaat -- REBELLIOUS GOD -- Rebellious God / Forugh Farrokhzad -- Lovers! / Tahirih -- Return to the Wellspring / Jila Mossaed -- Criticizing the Veil / Iraj Mirza -- Collage Sixteen / Ziba Karbassi -- Martyrs of Iran / Roger Sedarat -- I Didn't Ask for My Parents / Sholeh Wolpe -- God's Poem / Nader Naderpour -- Fire; take a step / Sepideh Jodeyri -- Hezbollah / Sheema Kalbasi -- A Homily on Leaving / Nader Naderpour -- Religion / Amy Motlagh -- Of Leaving / Sholeh Wolpe -- STEPPING THROUGH TIME -- The Art of Stepping through Time / H.E. Sayeh -- In Praise of Big Noses / Persis Karim -- Untitled / Peyman Vahabzadeh -- Those Who Stood Up for Tolerance / Hafez -- Rhyme by Rhyme / Tahirih -- Stay Light on Your Feet / Rumi -- Collage Eleven / Ziba Karbassi -- Collage Fourteen / Ziba Karbassi -- The Plumber's Poem / Zara Houshmand -- My Hands Tremble Yet Again -- A Soliloquy / Sheida Mohammadi -- Hot Tea a Warm Muffin / Shideh Etaat -- Mulberries and Chador / Farzaneh Milani -- Return from My Body's Black-and-Blue / Sheida Mohammadi -- Caravan / H.E. Sayeh -- Connection / Forugh Farrokhzad -- I Won't Quit Loving / Hafez -- Morning Star / Ziba Karbassi -- Twittering / Pegah Ahmadi -- Someone like No One / Forugh Farrokhzad -- Water / Sohrab Sepehri.
Collects poetry from Iranian exiles on their feelings for their home country and its politics.

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