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“Play that Funky (Iranian-American Music) Wine Boy…”
After finishing a review of Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati’s new translation of the modern Persian poet Sohrab Sepehri’s long poem Water’s Footfall, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Iranian culture’s long…
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Random Rhymes (with slight Persian overtones)–by guest blogger Roger Sedarat
A quick entry today, yet one keeping with the Persian connection and the aforementioned quote by one of the old masters summarizing the classical verse of Iran: “The poetry is in the rhyme.” So…
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Nick Ashford, dead at 70, a songwriter as ‘solid as a rock’
Following the death of Jerry Leiber (see David Lehman’s fine tribute below) comes the news that another half of another fine songwriting team – Nick Ashford of Ashford and Simpson – has died, at…
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Tattoos and the (interdisciplinary) Art of Persian Poetry by Roger Sedarat
Tattoos, unlike smoking, remain pretty cool. They’re also here to stay (and in keeping with the loose Persian connections, please allow the pun). I thought of introducing a brief collage of poetry tattooed on…
