Book record
Born Upon the Dark Spear
Ahmad Shamlu
Translated from Persian by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Born Upon the Dark Spear, by Ahmad Shamlu and translated by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, brings one of modern Iran’s major poetic voices into a title full of danger and origin. To be born upon a dark spear is to begin from violence, elevation, and wound at once. Shamlu’s Persian poetry is central to modern Iranian literature, and his work often carries political conscience, lyric intensity, and a free-verse modernity that reshaped the field around him. I would read this collection as poetry where historical pressure and personal address do not separate cleanly. Mohaghegh’s translation has to carry force, density, and moral weather. This seems like a book for readers who want modern poetry with gravity: not decorative darkness, but a language sharpened by danger, witness, and defiance.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Contra Mundum Press
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
- ISBN
- 9781940625164