The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh

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This compelling selection is the first to span fifty years of H.E. Sayeh's bearing witness to a turbulent Iranian century, especially the national crises which followed the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the CIA-led coup d'tat of 1953. Sayeh shows tremendous range, from the inward, spare lyric to bardic incantations that roll off the tongue and resonate with the voice of the whole nation, blending traditional Persian verse in the spirit of Rumi and Hafez with issues of contemporary Iranian society. Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi have delivered exquisite translations of this important Iranian poet.

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Chad Sweeney: Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek, Arranging the Blaze, and An Architecture. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney. Mojdeh Marashi: Mojdeh Marashi is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and visual artist. Her fiction was chosen to appear in the anthology Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: Women of the Iranian Diaspora. She makes a living as a software designer and is currently working on a number of literary projects.