Sin–
Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
(Translated and edited by Sholeh Wolpe)
Watch the 2010 Lois Roth Translation Prize awarded to this book
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths
(University of Arkansas Press)
“When Sholeh Wolpe asks 'How hard is it to write a long song?' she is reflecting on beauty and love in times of war and personal upheaval. She is reflecting on poetry's absurd covenant with pain, loss, and violence--and its promise to find beauty through these human horrors. Her beautiful poems are at once sensual, meditative, raw in their honesty, and judicious in their fit use of language. This collection delights and disturbs, often in the very same poem.”
--Kwame Dawes
“Like dreams peopled with healing clues, Wolpe's poems are rich with surrealism and harmony, telling deep truths of women across cultures and languages.”
--Annie Finch
"A gifted Iranian-American poet beautifully explores love and the loss of love, beauty and war and the ghosts of the past."
--Shelf Awareness Magazine
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Books
The Forbidden–
Poems from Iran and its Exiles
(Edited by Sholeh Wolpe)
Tablet and Pen--Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East
Edited by Reza Aslan,
Sholeh Wolpe, regional editor (Iran)
Proceeds benefit Words Without Borders
Breaking the Jaws of Silence
(University of Arkansas Press)
“A deeply humane and aesthetically exhilarating collection.”
--Robert Olen Butler
“A truly miraculous collection. Sholeh Wolpe has not only brought together some of the most prominent poets in the world today, she has created a work of both truth and beauty that gives voice to the voiceless across the globe.”
--Reza Aslan
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Translated into Persian by:
Sholeh Wolpe
and
Mohsen Emadi
(A project of the International Program at the University of Iowa)
Atlanta Review
2010 Iran Issue,
(Edited by Sholeh Wolpe)
This is Atlanta Review's bestselling issue yet.