Standing on Earth
by
Mohsen Emadi
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1944700005
ISBN-13
9781944700003
Publisher
Phoneme
Imprint
Phoneme
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 22nd, 2016
Print length
120 Pages
Weight
126 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 32.20 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child's love of language. Lyn Coffin's translations from the Persian allow Emadi's poems to inhabit the English language as their own, as the poet recasts his earliest memories and deepest loves over the forges of being "someone who goes to bed in one city and wakes up in another city." Alternating between acceptance and despair, tenderness and toughness, he writes, "I wanted to be a physicist," but "Your kisses made me a poet." Mohsen Emadi is a powerful witness to life in the present times, and Standing on Earth introduces a major world poet to an English-language readership for the first time.
In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child''s love of language. Lyn Coffin''s translations from the Persian allow Emadi''s poems to inhabit the English language as their own, as the poet recasts his earliest memories and deepest loves over the forges of being "someone who goes to bed in one city and wakes up in another city." Alternating between acceptance and despair, tenderness and toughness, he writes, "I wanted to be a physicist," but "Your kisses made me a poet." Mohsen Emadi is a powerful witness to life in the present times, and Standing on Earth introduces a major world poet to an English-language readership for the first time.
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