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Baba Taher
Poetry
The males are pregnant
The poetry of Katayoon Zandvakili
 From the back cover of Katayoon Zandvakili's
Deer
Table Legs (University of Georgia Press, 1998):
Few first books of the last decade have attempted such a delicate challenge
as this one. A subtle variation on Romeo and Juliet, Deer
Table legs is multicultural in the widest, most generous use of
that term. Sometimes locating her poems in the Iran of her birth, Katayoon
Zandvakili tells more than one kind of love story in narrative filled with
irony and tenderness. In "the Boy & the Girl," the face of
the beloved is "the kind of face that sits by the fireplace, / listens
into the night, wears the sleeve of years." But in "Jerkfish,"
"Your face came into mine / with the brilliance of teeth, loud water
promises." With titles as enigmatic and illusive as those of Wallace
Stevens, these poems verge on the dreamlike but hold always to a dramatic
clarity.... FULL TEXT
Outlook
Will Germany Help?
Hamburg Bild
13 November 98
First southeast Asia and Russia -- and now Iran is facing bankruptcy.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, the country quickly needs $3
billion to meet its liabilities. France has already provided $1.45 billion.
The mullah regime is holding secret talks Japan, Italy -- and Germany.
This matter is extremely delicate because it is threatening to lead to
diplomatic complications. Iran is considered the arch enemy of the United
States, our most important ally. The reason for the financial crisis: the
decline of the oil price to $11 per barrel. Oil accounts for 80 percent
of Iran's public revenue. The country had based its budget calculations
on a price of $16.
No more
From a friend:
I am back in California. My father died last week -- unexpectedly. He
died five hours before I could get here.
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* Love will re-emerge, in time
Nargess Shahmanesh writes: The language you use in "Marrying
an Iranian woman" is truly beautiful; "love floating in a
nation that has been so unfortunate, nothing but a divine gift."...
In many ways Iran has become a hard nation, its inhabitants sharp,
tough, often ruthless (zebr-o-zerang) ... they are survivors. All this
is completely essential (or natural) given our recent history. In this
new world, the love you talk about, the innocent love is still part of
the soul of Iran, but it has changed shape, hiding behind a mask. Through
time, when the country is relaxed politically and economically, maybe
the old love will re-emerge... FULL
TEXT
* Mohammad can't become a "real" American
Ocmike1 writes: I read "How
to become an American." It's truly clever and thought-provoking.
As an Iranian who grew up in the U.S. and joined the military to constantly
prove my love for America, I've learned that no matter how long you live
in this country or how much you have done for it -- as long as people know
you were born in Iran and your real name is Mohammad -- you will never
be a "real" American.
God bless Iran and Iranians
* Politics: Payman in Los Angeles
Dr. Habibollah Peyman is giving a talk at University of California,
Los Angeles, (UCLA), Dodd Hall 147, on Saturday Nov. 21 from 5-10 pm.
Subject: The current intellectual trend in teh Islamic Republic of Iran
Book of the Week
Deer Table Legs
Poems by Katayoon Zandvakili
The University of Georgia Press, 1998
Zandvakili lives in Piedmont, California, and writes for
Publishers Weekly. Her poems have appeared in The Massachusetts
Review, Five Fingers Review, Hawai'i Review, and the anthology
A World Betwee: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans.
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The men I met
The men I met fell from the tops of sentences. They promised hot-air
balloon rides, would've stolen sheep. On the way up the mountain they held
silent. (Silence is power, the book said.)
Katayoon Zandvakili
"Deer
Table Legs"
The Iranian
November 19, 1998
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