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Lives Lost:
Bilingual, colour, illustrated edition. Political Prisoners | Iran | Poetry
Written in the wake of the 1980s massacres of political prisoners in Iran, Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow insists on the work of memory, critical thought, and imagination to resist the ‘forgetting’ forged by violence. Saeed Yousef’s acerbic, moving, and defiant quatrains, based on eyewitness accounts, subverts the classical form of the Persian ruba’i to testify to State atrocities.
This multi-genre, bilingual edition introduces Yousef’s historically significant poem to non-Persian speaking readers for the first time. Ahad Bahadori’s attentive translation, Ava Raha’s surrealist illustrations, and Dr. Shahrzad Mojab’s illuminating Foreword offer valuable perspectives on Yousef’s poem and the role of resistance poetry in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.
In Lives Lost it is the dead who narrate The poems heroes are talking not from the safe harbor of an imagined afterlife but via the blunt expressivity of their new corpsification their exposed irrefutable materiality just as their wills that said no also remain In Ava Rahas haunting illustrations rosy blood splashes and pools but the figures of the executed refuse to dissolve
Simone Davis World Literature Today
In both form and content Lives Lost In Search of a New Tomorrow a new illustrated bilingual edition of Saeed Yousefs rubais documenting the 1980s prison massacres in Iran is a daring and indispensable publication for this fraught moment in time Emerging from a collaborative process initiated by the activistintellectual Shahrzad Mojab this challenging and strangely beautiful book serves to remind both English and Persian speaking readers of the crucial historically repressed decade of violence that enabled Khomeinis regime to seize control over the direction of Irans popular Revolution
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Dimensions:
88 Pages
20cm * 18cm * 0.8cm
0.20kg
Published:
October 25, 2019
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ISBN:
9781775256724
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eng
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