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The Art of Stepping Through Time
H.E. Sayeh
Translated from Persian by Chad Sweeney
The Art of Stepping Through Time, by H.E. Sayeh and translated by Chad Sweeney from Persian, brings Persian-language poetry from Iran into English through Persian temporal art, H.E. Sayeh's passage through history, and the poem as a method of crossing rather than escaping time. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for time, stepping, art, and the slow formal intelligence of moving through memory, not as a fixed lesson about Iran. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. The Art of Stepping Through Time belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives modern Persian poetry a voice of continuity, craft, and political inwardness.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- White Pine Press (NY)
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran
- ISBN
- 9781935210276