Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth-Century Iran

by Fatemeh Keshavarz and Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamu-stafa

An unprecedented exploration of the themes and modes of modern Persian poetry

Recite the Name of the Red Rose introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives and writings of modern and classical poets, Fatemeh Keshavarz provides a systematic examination of the array of religious impulses in recent Persian verse. Viewing poetry as the site of the emergence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036225
• ISBN13: 9781570036224
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"