Bøger af Sholeh Wolpe

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

¿In Sholeh Wolpe¿s Rooftops of Tehran , an unforgettable cast of characters emerges, from the morality policeman with the poison razor blade to the crow-girls flapping their black garments, from the woman with the bee-swarm tattoo emerging from her crotch to the author as a young girl on a Tehran rooftop with a God¿s eye view `hovering above a city / where beatings, cheatings, prayers, songs, / and kindness are all one color¿s shades.¿ Here is a delicious book of poems, redolent of saffron and stained with pomegranate in its vision of Iran and of the immigrant life in California. Wolpe¿s poems are at once humorous, sad, and sexy, which is to say that they are capriciously human, human even in that they dream of wings and are always threatening to take flight.¿¿Tony Barnstone, Award winning poet and translator, author of The Golem of Los Angeles

Albert Einstein said, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." It is in this vein that Sholeh Wolpe's mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this lyrical and candid work, her fifth collection of poems, Wolpe invokes the abacus as an instrument of remembering.