Ghazal Games
eBook - ePub

Ghazal Games

Poems

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ghazal Games

Poems

About this book

As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classicalPersian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhapsbest be described as "Wallace Stevens meets Rumi." Perhaps most striking is the poet's use of the ancient ghazal form in the tradition of the classical masters like Hafez and Rumi to politically challenge the Islamic Republic of Iran's continual crackdown on protesters. Not since the late Agha Shahid Ali has a poet translated the letter as well as the spirit of this form into English, using musicality and inventive rhyme to extend the reach of the ghazal in a new language and tradition.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contents
  6. Ghazal Game #1
  7. Sonnet Ghazal
  8. Ghazal Game #2: Pin the Tail on the Middle Eastern Donkey
  9. Inverted Ghazal
  10. The Persian Poet’s Recipe for Qormeh Sabzi
  11. Ghazal Game #3: True or False
  12. The Beard
  13. The Sword
  14. For My Beloved
  15. Salads Are for Girls
  16. Ghazal Game #4: Matching
  17. American
  18. Ghazal Game #5: Product Placement
  19. Martyrs of Iran
  20. Chemotherapy
  21. Vertical Ghazal
  22. My Father’s Face
  23. Ghazal Game #6: Hangman
  24. Bashō and Hafez: Japanese-Persian Fusion
  25. The Goddamn Scale
  26. The Train
  27. Texas
  28. Ghazal Game #7: Tic Tac Toe
  29. Postmodern Ekphrasis Ghazal
  30. Protest Ghazal #1
  31. Protest Ghazal #2
  32. Protest Ghazal #3
  33. Ghazal for Neda
  34. Perfect Translation
  35. Cold Feet
  36. Ghazal Game #8: An Exercise in Tone
  37. Facebook
  38. Ghazal Game #9: Illustrate the Comic Strip
  39. Gazelle in a Ghazal
  40. Ya Baba
  41. Dubai
  42. Dramatic Crime Scene Ghazal
  43. Ghazal Game #10: Truth or Dare
  44. Moley
  45. Farsi
  46. Chador Bat, a Qasideh Ballad
  47. Ghazal Game #11: Spin the Bottle
  48. Gus
  49. We
  50. Ghazal Game #12: Know Your Shakespeare
  51. Stone
  52. Mixed Metaphor
  53. Found Ghazal
  54. Disease of Self
  55. Vampire God
  56. Trapped in Form
  57. Jar in Shiraz
  58. Sedarat