Book record
Oasis of Now
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Sohrab Sepehri
Translated from Persian by Kazim Ali
Oasis of Now is a Persian multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Iran, associated with Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Sohrab Sepehri, translated by Kazim Ali, and published by BOA Editions, Limited in 2013. It is a Persian volume shaped by spiritual attention, desert clarity, and the lyric patience of presence. The book asks the reader to treat now as a place one can enter, not merely the thin edge between past and future. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Iran. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Limited
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
- ISBN
- 9781938160226