Araghi, Alireza Taheri (ed.): I Am a Face Sympathizing with Your Grief: Seven Younger Iranian Poets

I Am a Face Sympathizing with Your Grief: Seven Younger Iranian Poets Edited and Translated by Alireza Taheri Araghi (co-im-press, paperback) Publication Date: December 21, 2015 Publisher Marketing: Translated from the Farsi by Alireza Taheri Araghi. In order to shine some light on contemporary Iranian poetry unknown to Anglophone readers, I AM A FACE SYMPATHIZING WITH YOUR GRIEF brings together works by seven emerging poets: Arash Allahverdi, Sodéh Negintaj, Babak Khoshjan, Ali Karbasi, Mahnaz Yousefi, Shahram Shahidi, and Ahoora Goudarzi. Their poems teem with a rich array of imagery, themes, and allusions—from the Vietnam War to the Iranian Revolution, from the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur to the Iran-Iraq war, and even Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies. With poems simultaneously personal, historical, and immediate, the seven poets in this collection reveal a vastly different Iran than those titans of traditional Persian literature, Rumi and Khayyám. Although these Iranian po