The Scar Saloon

by Sholeh Wolpé

Sholeh Wolp 's poems are political, satirical, and unflinching in the face of war, tyranny and loss. Talismanic and alchemical, they attempt to transmute experience into the magic of the imagined. But they also dare to be tender and funny lyrical moments. This book is remarkable and unexpected.

--Chris Abani

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188899603X
• ISBN13: 9781888996036
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Billy Collins, Chris Abani and Charles Web describe it best:

In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off,Sholeh Wolpé writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common. -- Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003) The Scar Saloon is a humane and compassionate book in which horror is balanced by love, pain by pleasure, denial by sensuality, seriousness with humor. Many of the poems are set in the Middle East, but Sholeh Wolpé is clearly a poet of the world. --Charles Harper Webb, author of Liver (winner of the Felix PollakPrize) Sholeh Wolpé's poems are political, satirical, and unflinching in the face of war, tyranny and loss. Talismanic and alchemical, they attempt to transmute experience into the magic of the imagined. But they also dare to be tender and funny lyrical moments. This book is remarkable and unexpected. --Chris Abani, author of Daphne's Lot and Graceland