Book record
After Tomorrow the Days Disappear
Hasan Sijzi
Translated from Persian by Rebecca Gould
After Tomorrow the Days Disappear, by Hasan Sijzi and translated by Rebecca Gould, carries a title that sounds like time collapsing just beyond reach. Tomorrow is already unstable in poetry, but after tomorrow the days themselves disappear. Sijzi’s Persian-language work, brought into English by Gould, likely belongs to a historical and literary field where lyric, devotional, philosophical, and courtly traditions may overlap. I would read this book as translation across a deep temporal distance, where the reader is not only crossing language but entering another architecture of thought. The title suggests impermanence without panic, perhaps even a metaphysical calm about vanishing. Gould’s translation matters because older Persian poetry requires music, context, and restraint. This book seems valuable for readers interested in time, transience, and classical literary inheritance.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
- ISBN
- 9780810132306