{"product_id":"ghazal-games-poems-paperback-softback-9780821419502","title":"Ghazal Games; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780821419502","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGhazal Games\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoger Sedarat (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821419502\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e80 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 0.8 cm, 0.124 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In his new collection of poetry, \u003cb\u003eRoger Sedarat\u003c\/b\u003e strikes the perfect balance between Eastern and Western expression, between the modern and the medieval, and between the sacred and the profane. A delight on every page, one can't help but imagine that if Hafez, Rumi, and other Sufi mystic poets — even Goethe — were transported to the twenty–first century, their tweets might read something like this.\" \"Roger Sedarat's \u003ci\u003eGhazal Games\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding example of the genre.\" (Gino's Blog) \"Playfully, humorously, Sedarat confronts issues such as religious hypocrisy and dogma head on…. Though \u003ci\u003eGhazal Games\u003c\/i\u003e may appear a broadly experimental endeavor at first, its tone and carefully crafted phraseology remain consistent throughout. It is an excellent educational tool for creative writers and, as the following selections demonstrate, a delightful read.\" (Frontline, \"Tehran Bureau\") \"These poems are to be savored in their audacity — in turn witty, erotic, ludic, learned, engaged. \u003cb\u003eRoger Sedarat\u003c\/b\u003e's ghazals bridge the form's (and the poet's) Persian sources to American demotic language, and open couplet windows on transnational reality.\" \u003cp\u003e\"Ghazal Games overflows with intelligent charm: its well-formed couplets, fueled\u003cbr\u003e by iconoclasm, are blessed with clarity, goodheartedness, pizzazz, and prankishness. Let's crown \u003cb\u003eRoger Sedarat\u003c\/b\u003e the king of Carnival; long may he reign.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \"Now more than ever, the world needs to hear from Roger Sedarat. Since his career began, he's been raging against oppressive regimes throughout the world, but his focus is Iran. He wants his work to help the Iranian people seize their country for their own. Sometimes this plays out in a symbolic way in his work, and sometimes in more literal fashion. He laments lost loved ones, lost human rights, and lost culture. He focuses his anger to a point and uses it to change people's minds.\" (Stuff for the Teen Age, a blog of The New York Public Library) \"A unique and concise collection of interactive poems.\" (Persian Heritage)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAs an Iranian American poet, \u003cb\u003eRoger Sedarat\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744955035928,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ghazal-games-poems-paperback-softback-9780821419502","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}