University of Arkansas Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-1-61075-516-0 | Paper: 978-1-55728-628-4 Library of Congress Classification PK6449.E5K44 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, Sholeh Wolpé's third collection of poems, is a surreal journey of sorrows and sins, of love, ghosts, and Saudi princes, of banishment inside one's own skin. Wild in its leaps and images, these poems explore personal and psychological exile from a marriage, lovers, expectations, and finally, country.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Sholeh Wolpé is the author of two collections of poetry, including Rooftops of Tehran, and she is the editor of Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World and The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles. She is a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Her books of translations include Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.
REVIEWS
"A gifted Iranian-American poet beautifully explores love and the loss of love, beauty and war and the ghosts of the past." --Tom Lavoie in Shelf Awareness
"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, author of Spells
"When Sholeh Wolpé asks in Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, 'How hard is it to write a love 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, author of Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
“the best way out is always through” —Robert Frost
Ash
The Chill
The Honeymoon Cruise
Matrimony
Each day
Affairs
Vision
This Is How We Love
# 1
Fault Lines
#2
Freedom
#3
What Slides inside the Throat
Illusion
#4
Ask Her Any Question and She Will Answer Like Glass
#5
The Art of . . .
Help Her Leave
#6
Sanctuary
“Where is the life we have lost in living?”—T. S. Eliot
The House on Stilt Legs
Lost in Trinidad
Buried Stories
Pickles and Donuts
The Prince
Best Friend
The Rosetta Stone
At Journey’s End Resort
Dream Labyrinth
Rearrangement
At the Temple of Bloomingdale
How Hard Is It to Write a Love Song?
Yellow to Blue
Because
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”—Mark Twain
Footnotes of a Sour Savior
The Circle
The Green of Iran
I Am Neda
Rajkowska’s Palm in the Land of Auschwitz
The Exiles
We Suckle on Fantasies
Coming Home
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths
Prelude
2nd Movement
3rd Movement
4th Movement
5th Movement
6th Movement
Notes on “Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths: A Nowruz Sonata in Seven Movements”
Acknowledgments
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University of Arkansas Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-1-61075-516-0 Paper: 978-1-55728-628-4
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, Sholeh Wolpé's third collection of poems, is a surreal journey of sorrows and sins, of love, ghosts, and Saudi princes, of banishment inside one's own skin. Wild in its leaps and images, these poems explore personal and psychological exile from a marriage, lovers, expectations, and finally, country.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Sholeh Wolpé is the author of two collections of poetry, including Rooftops of Tehran, and she is the editor of Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World and The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles. She is a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Her books of translations include Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.
REVIEWS
"A gifted Iranian-American poet beautifully explores love and the loss of love, beauty and war and the ghosts of the past." --Tom Lavoie in Shelf Awareness
"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, author of Spells
"When Sholeh Wolpé asks in Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, 'How hard is it to write a love 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, author of Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
“the best way out is always through” —Robert Frost
Ash
The Chill
The Honeymoon Cruise
Matrimony
Each day
Affairs
Vision
This Is How We Love
# 1
Fault Lines
#2
Freedom
#3
What Slides inside the Throat
Illusion
#4
Ask Her Any Question and She Will Answer Like Glass
#5
The Art of . . .
Help Her Leave
#6
Sanctuary
“Where is the life we have lost in living?”—T. S. Eliot
The House on Stilt Legs
Lost in Trinidad
Buried Stories
Pickles and Donuts
The Prince
Best Friend
The Rosetta Stone
At Journey’s End Resort
Dream Labyrinth
Rearrangement
At the Temple of Bloomingdale
How Hard Is It to Write a Love Song?
Yellow to Blue
Because
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”—Mark Twain
Footnotes of a Sour Savior
The Circle
The Green of Iran
I Am Neda
Rajkowska’s Palm in the Land of Auschwitz
The Exiles
We Suckle on Fantasies
Coming Home
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths
Prelude
2nd Movement
3rd Movement
4th Movement
5th Movement
6th Movement
Notes on “Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths: A Nowruz Sonata in Seven Movements”
Acknowledgments
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