Deep Are These Distances Between Us

AvSusan Atefat–peckham,Darius Atefat–peckham

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Poems that imagine Persian and Iranian American lives. In Deep Are These Distances Between Us, Susan Atefat-Peckham troubles preconceptions of nationhood and fixed systems of power by bringing the reader into the Iranian American home, offering glimpses of familial love and intimacy. Atefat-Peckham reaches for a network of care—the foundations of which are located in the ability of these poems to evoke the rich landscape of Iranian American lives. Articulating a spirituality that has no spatial or temporal boundaries, one which travels effortlessly between life and death, this collection is a treatise on the empathy we need now more than ever.An up-and-coming poet who died just four years after winning the National Poetry Series Award in 2000, Susan Atefat-Peckham was deeply concerned by the Islamophobic “Axis of Evil” rhetoric deployed after 9/11 and was skeptical of attempts by the United States to “democratize” the Middle East. Representing the lives of immigrants in the United States and Persians in Iran, as well as the distance that separates their experiences and the love that binds them together, Atefat-Peckham brings an important voice to that conflict—one of the family and the home, where glimpses of intimacy and care rival imperial oppression.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-02
Mått:6 x 9 x 11 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:CavanKerry Press
ISBN:9781933880969

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Susan Atefat-Peckham (1970–2004) was born as a first-generation American to Iranian parents and lived most of her life in Switzerland and the United States. She was the author of the poetry collection That Kind of Sleep and editor of the anthology of Middle Eastern writing, Talking Through the Door. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Borderlands, Prairie Schooner, International Poetry Review, Texas Review, Puerto Del Sol, Southern Poetry Review, and Northwest Review.

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“It is natural that under the words of poems like these, a geography of forms. Transnational, existing between countries and cultures, the poems of Susan Atefat-Peckham were part of the charting of a unique landscape. Like the poems of Meena Alexander, Shreela Ray, Reetika Vazirani, and Agha Shahid Ali, her poems have languages, locales, food, and fabrics fully other than the familiar material of American poetry. We have been waiting a long time for new poems from Susie, and here they are, found in files by her son, another poet of life and the mind. Rumi taught us that every poem must be followed by silence. We must listen carefully to the words we have been given. We are not bereft. This is a cartography of love and wonder. Cardinals, cardinals everywhere.”

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword Darius Atefat-PeckhamSmuggling (A Short Essay)Night ConversationsI: AppearancesSmall Things How to Get to the House on Takhti StreetCleanGhossam Remembers His BrotherHatsFacesOutside the Mosque The Meanings of NamesAppearances How to Cut Agha Rashid Breathes In Nina HearsThe Memory of Cells Nina CallsWhy They AttackedBars II: LoversThe Anatomy of Hands At the Airport Lovers Ai’d Mobarack Vessels Hunger Dissecting Turtles (added)Sestinelle for Travelers Filling the Spaces We Know Walking Home in AutumnTo My Unborn SonTo My Son at Seven MonthsTo My Son at Ten MonthsIII: ContinuanceTara At NightGhossam Sleeps Who? A Visitor Zeeba SaysIn the Morning Lower Manhattan Torches Interring the Body ContinuanceLight Instructions on What to Say First at a Muslim Burial Where You Are