Books

By Fatemeh Shams, Armen Davoudian Imprint: Copper Canyon Press Fatemeh Shams’s NABOOD, pitched in the tradition of Ilya Kaminsky and […]

Hair on Fire: AfghaFive female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a

In Hopscotch, Fatemeh Shams crafts a vivid liminal world of Berlin-based poems, a canvas where home and exile blur into an

[Writing in the Mist] (in Persian: Neveshtan Dar Meh) is the second poetry collection by the acclaimed Iranian poet and

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the

88 is the debut poetry collection by Fatemeh Shams. It was first published in 2013 (Gardoon Publications), although some sources

The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a