Book record
Face to face with dreams
Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Turābī
Translated from Persian by Parisa Samadi
Face to Face with Dreams, by Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Turābī and translated by Parisa Samadi, is a Persian poetry collection whose title stages encounter rather than escape. Dreams are often thought of as private interiors, but here the speaker comes face to face with them, as though they were beings with eyes, bodies, and demands. I would read this book for its threshold between vision and confrontation. Persian poetry has long made room for dream, mysticism, longing, and philosophical address, and this contemporary or modern entry likely participates in that atmosphere without being reducible to it. Samadi’s translation gives English-language readers a route into a poetic imagination shaped by reverie and directness together. The book seems suited to readers who want dreams not as softness, but as serious company.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Ad Lumen Press
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
- ISBN
- 9780991189564