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Lean against this late hour / Garous Abdolmalekian ; translated from the Persian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey.

by ʻAbd al-Malikiyān, Garūs, 1980-

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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2020.

Persian poetry -- 21st century.

9780143134930 (pbk.)

xi, 139 p. ; 23 cm.

English and Persian text on facing pages.

Border -- Pattern -- I need to acknowledge -- Long poem of loneliness -- Doubts and hesitation -- Poem for stillness -- Pattern II -- Necklace -- Flashback -- Pattern III -- Fall -- Long exposure -- Agony's rasp -- The rest of the picture -- What bridge -- Pattern IV -- Paper boat -- Long exposure II -- Meeting -- Around morning -- Pattern V -- Acquiescence -- Birds of sorrow -- Pattern VI -- Characters -- The cluttered table -- Federico Garcia Lorca -- Stain on a soldier's uniform -- Infrared camera -- Sea -- Fog song -- On power lines -- Insanity -- Long exposure III -- Forest -- The bird of reconciliation -- One-way ticket -- Bits of darkness -- Long exposure IV -- Passage -- Long exposure V -- Ant -- Long exposure VI -- Dark period -- Door hinge -- Bricks -- The mad corner of the room -- Pattern VII -- Injured poem on the table -- Game -- Sealed doors -- Long exposure VIII.

"A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian (bilingual edition). The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a mesmerizing, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise."--From publisher.

Nadalizadeh, Ahmad.

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