New verse : a selection of modern Persian poetry / translated from the Persian by Geoffrey Squires.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Squires, Geoffrey, translator.

Language:

English

Persian

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Costa Mesa, California : Mazda Publishers, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the Persian.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: POEMS

Nima Yushij

The Cold Hearth Makhulla

Night Memory My Home is Cloudy O Men The Moonlight Seeps Ri ra A Familiar Story Night all Night Woe is Me

Akhavan Saless

My Garden Windows Like a Thirsty Pitcher Lament Graftings and the Garden Winter

The Moment of Meeting Green Prayer

Shamlou

Nocturne Nothing to Say Song for Acquaintance Midnight The Death of the Nazarene Poverty On the Paving-Stones Dark Song Execution Hour

Sketch In this Dead End

Atashi

Mountain Ghazal Perhaps One Day Vision at Dawn We Didn't Know

Naderpour

Unspoken A Kind of Storm Rome Behind the Fire Grape Poem Square Qom The Shortest Distance between Two Points Under Western Skies Elegy for the Desert and the Town: III

Kasrai

Arash the Archer (prologue) (Untitled) Echo Drawing Domestication

Ebtehaj

Sterile Night-bound Sentiment What a Blessing is this Sorrow Arghavan The Sorrow of the Mirror

Farrokhzad

My Lover Couple Daybreak The Wind-up Doll In the Cold Streets of the Night Friday Journey Poem The Wind will take us Away Another Birth My Heart is Sore Gift

Rahmani

New Town He Looked Once The Image Trembled Exile in the Link of the Chain

Roya'i

Seasong 3

Seasong 4

Seasong 9

Seasong 14

Seasong 29

Hoqouqi

A Shadow on the Wall Dust at the Foot of the Water-mill And it is this that I know Poem

Ahmad Reza Ahmadi

With Wide Eyes The Latest News O Dark Mankind Pleasure Ground Story Identity Card News Rain on a Friday Morning

Noori'ala

A Memory for the New Generation Sky and River Narrative Our Name is Love A Poem is Something Private

Azad

I am a Plant How do I Praise Abadan

Evening A Long Blue Season Without you I am Dust It is not only Men who Cry

Jalali

Five Untitled Poems

Sepanlou

Happy Day O Long-suffering World (from Pavements/Sidewalks) Caravanserai A Letter with Bad News Autumn Arrives I Take the Pulse of my Country Sepehri

In Golestaneh Light I Flower Water The Trembling Word Existence An Oasis in the Moment Sketch Water.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237).

ISBN:

1568593597

9781568593593

OCLC:

1263663904