Standing on Earth by Mohsen Emadi and translated by Lyn Coffin

This is poetry from Iran.

Standing on Earth by Mohsen Emadi translated by Lyn Coffin is published by HewesHeiser. This is a Book originally written in Persian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944700003E12.

Standing on Earth, by Mohsen Emadi, is a Persian poetry collection from Iran, translated by Lyn Coffin, published by HewesHeiser in 2016. It is a Persian collection grounded in the body while looking toward exile, memory, and planetary scale. Emadi’s title gives the poems a posture: feet on earth, language reaching into the unsettled air. 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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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