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The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation

The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation

Keshavmurthy, Prashant
Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh
Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 9004696032
ISBN13: 9789004696037
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 28 2024
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation is the first complete translation of the collected poems of Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), a major Iranian modernist poet and painter and yet under-translated into English. The introduction takes up Sepehri's famously difficult if languidly beautiful style to explain it as a series of appropriations of global modernisms in poetry and painting. It offers close readings of how Sepehri's modernism follows and breaks with the jagged rhythms of Nima Yushij (d.1960), Iran's inaugural modernist poet. In keeping with this modernist framing, the translations replicate Sepehri's rhymes where possible, his fluctuations between formal and colloquial registers, his syntactic distortions, and his embeddings of governmental and other jargons. It also includes Sepehri's autobiography.

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