| Blood Wedding-Saeed Soltanpour Contributor(s): Baran, Sam Bejan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1724303139 ISBN-13: 9781724303134 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $5.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.27 lbs) 84 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book contains a critique of the poet in terms of Ideology, Activism, Arts, Performers; 12 poems in translation, a 1977 Speech, Biography, Chronology, and References. Since Saeed was arrested in his wedding, Lorca's play The Blood Wedding is alluded. Soltanpour's contribution to Farsi poetry is interjecting journalism style into his poetry. Journalism by definition is objective, factual, linear, and unambiguous; with no emotions in present tense reporting. It is visual and with allusion to real locale and people. Journalism poetry style has the following attributes: harsh imagery, direct description of events, rhyme, alliteration, and proper nouns. To illustrate the point, read the following poems: My Iran I, II, The Song of Bleeding Kurdistan, Four Letters, What is Happening to My Country? He delivers a nuanced and realistic picture of the working class, ethnics, and day's events more effectively than journalists. He finds subtle, eloquent, and inventive phrases to relay information in a tightly focused poem to embrace an objective, even a documentary, report of ongoing struggle. |