by Mohsen Emadi translated from the Persian by Lyn Coffin Poetry Paperback ISBN: 978-1944700003 In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting imagery and a child’s love of language. Lyn Coffin’s translations from the Persian allow Emadi’s poems …
It is snowing outside. I’m listening to a song. Twice in this song I’ve fallen in love. I don’t know what language the song is in. It makes no difference because I dream in one language and I fall in love in another. Last year, I changed my residence five …
The objects will not be repeated because of their functions. the lighter burns. the pen writes. your memory occupied the objects every resistance must transform the functions of objects it must be possible to write with the lighter and light a cigarette with the pen or one must go even …