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Exiled to the Rocky
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781997503200
Publisher: Asemana Books
Published: Oct 17 2025
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Persian
Collection of poetry by Ali Fatolahi published by Asemana publication, Toronto, Canada. This evocative collection of poetry by Ali Fatolahi offers a deeply personal journey through the intertwined realms of eroticism, science, and nostalgia. In language that is at once raw and luminous, the poet invites readers into a sensuous, cerebral landscape shaped by longing, wonder, and a refusal to be tethered by the burdens of history.
Written in a spirit of carpe diem, these poems embrace life in all its fleeting intensity. Rather than confront the political upheavals, religious dogmas, and traumas of the poet's homeland directly, Fatolahi sidesteps them with an almost defiant joy-finding solace in the intoxications of love, wine, and the enduring allure of the etheric beauties embedded in his origins. His verse becomes a sanctuary, a place where memory and desire converge, where the poet dares to dwell in moments of pleasure, curiosity, and fleeting transcendence.
The metaphoric language employed in this collection is mercurial and ever-evolving. Each poem becomes a rebirth of form and feeling, ranging across an astonishing array of subjects-from the earthy pleasures of fruits and the flight of birds, to the abstract realms of quantum theory and celestial mechanics. Fatolahi's voice oscillates between the intimate and the cosmic, between the sensory and the symbolic, weaving a rich tapestry of associations that resists categorization.
At once lyrical and experimental, deeply rooted yet expansively imaginative, this collection affirms poetry as a space for radical freedom and reinvention. It is a celebration of the moment, the body, the stars-and the mysterious alchemy that binds them all together.
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