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The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville
<div>Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry including <i>Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths</i> and <i>Rooftops of Tehran</i>, and she is the editor of <i>The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles</i> and a regional editor of...
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Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry including Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths and Rooftops of Tehran, and she is the editor of The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles and a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Her books of translations include Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.
Contents; Editor's Note; Foreword; Call and Answer; Lady Freedom among Us; Your Beauty Is Overwhelming; Green; On Reading a Biography of George Washington; End of the War, 1949; Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942; Night in Blue; This Place is Here; Tienanmen, The Aftermath; In Mystic; All Hallows Eve; History Lesson; An Essay on Liberation; November 11; Parable of the Jew without a Name; Tahrir; Unrest; Summer of '09; Reading about Rwanda; The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods; The Squash Man; The Bridge of Intellectuals; Dialogue (Of the Imagination's Fear)
Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday ["Live in the Body, Long As You Will, Madiba"]War Is Never Right; Athena Looks On; Jerusalem: Easter, Passover; Boy Shooting at a Statue; Angels; To Salah Al Hamdani, November, 2008; After the Fact; The Book of the Dead Man (The Vote); The Museum of Stones; Rules Governing the Exchange of Prisoners; Language Acquisition: No and Yes; On Election Day; Shoo; Second Thoughts; Becoming Milton; World Cup; In Prison; Now; On the Ordination of a Zen Monk; Extraordinary Rendition; Staff Sgt. Metz; Ex-Embassy; August 6, and again on August 9; The Allusion of Seduction
Dear PrudenceAsphodel; Dark Thirty; Teacup Manifesto; Fatwa; What's Fair Is Fair; Poverty; The Gatekeeper's Children; More Poetry; The People of the Other Village; Wait; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; List of Contributors
