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Resonant Threads: Poems of Love, Resilience, and Wisdom
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781962834780
Publisher: Calumet Editions
Published: Jun 10 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A powerful debut poetry collection about love, loss, courage, family, justice, and the quiet work of becoming whole.
In Resonant Threads, Massoud Amin gathers poems written at the crossing point of public witness and private renewal. Born in Iran and shaped by a life in America, Amin writes from the space between countries, languages, generations, and moral obligations. These poems move from war and exile to fatherhood and family, from grief to resilience, from the weight of history to the small daily practices that keep the heart alive.
Thread is the book's central image: the thread between memory and responsibility, parent and child, wound and wisdom, silence and speech, Iran and America, the self and the larger human family. Across seven sections, Amin explores the fire of survival, the strength of women who hold families and futures together, the renewal of Nowruz, the discipline of truth, and the courage required to remain tender in a harsh world.
Several poems include Persian/Farsi lines in the original script, allowing the music of the language to remain present on the page. The result is a collection that feels both intimate and expansive: rooted in one life, yet speaking to anyone who has carried grief, sought justice, loved deeply, or tried to begin again.
For readers of contemporary poetry, immigrant literature, spiritual reflection, and poems of resilience, Resonant Threads offers a luminous meditation on what survives after fire-and what we are called to protect, repair, and pass on.
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