The Forbidden : Poems from Iran and Its Exiles.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- The State of Red -- And Behold - Simin Behbahani -- In This Dead-End Road - Ahmad Shamlou -- Death Sermon - Nader Naderpour -- The State of Red - Mandana Zandian -- Parts of a Pedestrian in a Tunnel - Rasoul Younan -- Of Sea Wayfarers - Esmail Khoi -- Blood and Ash - Nader Naderpour -- Camouflage Costumes - Granaz Moussavi -- Untitled - Shams Langeroodi -- A Mob! Tumult! - Peyman Vahabzadeh -- My House Is Cloudy - Nima Yushij -- Blood's Voice - Mohsen Emadi -- If Rising from Your Grave - Naanaam -- Death from the Window - Naanaam -- Life - Naanaam -- The Sticky Dream of a Banished Butterfly (Excerpt) - Maryam Hooleh -- Our Tears Are Sweet - Simin Behbahani -- I See the Sea . . . - Shams Langeroodi -- You Said, It's Only Grapes - Simin Behbahani -- Translating Silence -- Me - Granaz Moussavi -- The Poem - Mohsen Emadi -- From "23" - Shams Langeroodi -- The Shah and Hosseinzadeh - Reza Baraheni -- Hosseinzadeh, the Head Executioner - Reza Baraheni -- Ass Poem - Reza Baraheni -- Depression - Yadollah Royai -- Petition - Nader Naderpour -- A List of Names - Partow Nooriala -- Nargess - Partow Nooriala -- Always the Same . . . - Ahmad Shamlou -- I Did Not Expect - Ahmad Reza Ahmadi -- Of Your Uncles - Ahmad Shamlou -- 99 Names of Exile -- 99 Names of Exile - Kaveh Bassiri -- Ghazal 2 - Nader Naderpour -- Spring Story - Nader Naderpour -- Marco Polo - Ali Alizadeh -- Red-Raft Woman - Esther Kamkar -- Map of Ashen Roads - Sholeh Wolpé -- Memorial Day - Kaveh Bassiri -- Family of Scatterable Mines - Solmaz Sharif -- Airport - Granaz Moussavi -- Bleeding Green -- From Green to Green - Sohrab Sepehri -- The Green of Iran - Sholeh Wolpé -- Song of a Forbidden Woman - Granaz Moussavi -- At the Hamlet of Golestaneh - Sohrab Sepehri -- Summer Is a Green Story - Esther Kamkar.

A New Idea - Rumi -- Feminist - Maryam Ala Amjadi -- When a Color Stops Being a Color, Becomes Something Else Completely - Shideh Etaat -- Rebellious God -- Rebellious God - Forugh Farrokhzad -- Lovers! - Tahirih -- Return to the Wellspring - Jila Mossaed -- Criticizing the Veil - Iraj Mirza -- Collage Sixteen - Ziba Karbassi -- Martyrs of Iran - Roger Sedarat -- I Didn't Ask for My Parents - Sholeh Wolpé -- God's Poem - Nader Naderpour -- Fire -- take a step . . . - Sepideh Jodeyri -- Hezbollah - Sheema Kalbasi -- A Homily on Leaving - Nader Naderpour -- Religion - Amy Motlagh -- Of Leaving - Sholeh Wolpé -- Stepping through Time -- The Art of Stepping through Time - H. E. Sayeh -- In Praise of Big Noses - Persis Karim -- Untitled - Peyman Vahabzadeh -- Those Who Stood Up for Tolerance - Hafez -- Rhyme by Rhyme - Tahirih -- Stay Light on Your Feet - Rumi -- Collage Eleven - Ziba Karbassi -- Collage Fourteen - Ziba Karbassi -- The Plumber's Poem - Zara Houshmand -- My Hands Tremble Yet Again-A Soliloquy - Sheida Mohammadi -- Hot Tea, a Warm Muffin - Shideh Etaat -- Mulberries and Chador - Farzaneh Milani -- Return from My Body's Black-and-Blue - Sheida Mohammadi -- Caravan - H. E. Sayeh -- Connection - Forugh Farrokhzad -- I Won't Quit Loving - Hafez -- Morning Star - Ziba Karbassi -- Twittering - Pegah Ahmadi -- Someone like No One - Forugh Farrokhzad -- Water - Sohrab Sepehri -- About the Poets and Translators.

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