Book record
Sweet Sorrows
Farideddin Attar Neyshaboori
Translated from Persian by Vraje Abramian
Sweet Sorrows, by Farideddin Attar Neyshaboori, is a Persian poetry collection from Iran, translated by Vraje Abramian, published by Hohm Press in 2013. It is a Persian Sufi-inflected selection where sorrow becomes music, instruction, and sweetness without ceasing to hurt. Attar's work belongs to readers interested in the old intimacy between lyric, devotion, loss, and transformation. 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
- Hohm Press
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
- ISBN
- 9781935387428