Sweet Sorrows by Farideddin Attar Neyshaboori and translated by Vraje Abramian

This is poetry from Iran.

Sweet Sorrows by Farideddin Attar Neyshaboori translated by Vraje Abramian is published by Hohm Press. This is a Book originally written in Persian. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935387428E12.

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.

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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