| Born Upon the Dark Spear Contributor(s): Shamlu, Ahmad (Author), Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak (Translator), Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1940625165 ISBN-13: 9781940625164 Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.52 lbs) 172 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of the most powerful figures in modern world literature. Brought together here in translation for the first time, these selected works provide a gateway to the paradoxical imagination of an author who traverses immense distances of oblivion and light. On the one hand, Shamlu is known as a poet of night-raids and prison cells, dead-ends and burial orations, one for whom endlessly doomed horizons always keep him close to themes of martyrdom, fatality, rage, atrocity, and struggle. And yet, he is also the writer immortalized under the pen-name "Daybreak," a figure of illumination and ecstatic intensity who once declared himself the "vanguard of the sun" and who threatened to "hang the devil's lantern from the porch of every hidden torture chamber of this oppressive paradise." In a space caught between honor-codes and devastation, futility and apotheosis, one finds the poetic verses of Shamlu as among the first in a bloodline unbound-by-world. |
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