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Poet's Daughter de Parvaneh Bahar

Poet's Daughter

Autor Parvaneh Bahar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 feb 2012
They called it "Paradise", their beautiful home just outside old Tehran, and nurtured there a close bond of mutual love and respect for intellectual freedom. It was a magnet for leading thinkers and activists, who visited regularly for conversation with their best living poet and tireless champion of democracy, human rights, and women's empowerment -- Malek o'Shoara Bahar. Then one morning the children watched in horror as police dragged him away . . . Intimate and emotionally engaging, this powerful memoir introduces Americans to the high-profile Iranian cultural hero Malek o'Shoara Bahar -- whose freedom poem Morghe Sahar ("Bird of Dawn") is sung regularly with great passion at rallies for human rights and the empowerment of women throughout Iran. Bahar (1882-1951) tuned his political idealism and vast poetic gifts to Iranian's deepest feelings, championing democracy, freedom, and social justice -- for which Reza Shah rewarded him with regular prison stays and the attempted ostracisation of himself and his family. He is revered internationally by progressive Iranians and celebrated as Iran's best poet of the 20th century, many say of the past 500 years. Bahar's beloved daughter begins with moving reminiscences of her childhood and youth with him in Iran and later in Switzerland, replete with the charms and sensory delights of Tehran in the 1930s and 1940s, and punctuates the story with dozens of Bahar's poems as they are written. Then we see Parveneh carry his spirit forward into her own work as a progressive activist in the USA -- setting an inspiring example not only for Iranian women but for women throughout the world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781936012572
ISBN-10: 193601257X
Pagini: 239
Ilustrații: 18 photos
Dimensiuni: 230 x 155 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Gazelle Book Services Ltd

Cuprins

Prologue; General Introduction; The Foundation; Compassion & Mercy; Universality; The Door of Hope; The Audition; Four Poles, Four Elements; Ethics; The Mind & the Heart; Faith; Courtesy; Political Secularism; Knowledge/Science, Art; Closing the Two Doors; The Base Self; The Divine Law; Charity; Destiny; Death, Afterlife, the Apocalypse; The Beginning; The Essence of Man; The Paths (Orders); Worship; The Secret & the Sublime III; The Prophet; The Caliphs; The Scholars; The Saints; Chain. Epilogue; Appendix: Some Important Formulas; Index.

Recenzii

The author is the daughter of perhaps the most distinguished Iranian poet of the 20th century, Mohammad Taqi Bahar (1884 1951), also known as Malek o Sho ara Bahar (King of Poets). Because of the enormous importance of poetry in Persian culture and her father s unique place in its preservation, creation, and innovation, Bahar s account of her family life is of value both to students of Persian and to the country s history. The family picture that she evokes here is one of intimacy shaped by a background of political autocracy under the late Shah s father, Reza Shah Pahlavi. What could such a regime think of an outspoken democrat who insisted on the equality of women and enjoyed alcohol? The book represents the testimony of the author s own remarkable life. Following her father s exile and imprisonment under Reza Shah and his tubercular death in Switzerland, Bahar traveled to the United States over 50 years ago for university studies, a new life, and involvement in the Civil Rights Move

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"The Poet's Daughter is an engrossing coming-of-age tale of a Persian girl torn between devotion to her father--Bahar, the last icon of classical Persian poetry--and her own relentless desire to fashion for herself an identity as an independent, assertive modern woman. . . The beguiling simple elegance of the narrative never shies away from the harsh and heroic realities of the story." --Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford University, author of The Shah "Parvaneh emerges from these pages as a role model for women everywhere who struggle to be heard. . . one of the rings in a chain of liberated women who speak the truth to a world ready to listen." --Shahrnush Parsipur, author of Women Without Men " A touching evocation of a man, a great poet, a powerful political figure, as told by his loving daughter. . . You will learn a lot in this book about Iran and about poetry and about women. You will be deeply moved." --Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, The University of Chicago and author of Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah and the Political Elite of Iran "An absorbing memoir of an ongoing rich life that spanned much of the 20th century and is freshly relevant today--as thousands of Iranians rally in the streets for freedom, singing the anthems of the author's father, Malek o'Shoara Bahar." --Barbara Meade, co-founder and owner, Politics and Prose "Malek o'Shoara Bahar was the enlightened cultural father of all Iranians who lived after him. The Poet's Daughter reveals untold minutia about the hardships that Iran's most prominent poet and literary scholar of the 20th century had to endure in his pursuit of democracy for his country. I highly recommend it to all readers." --Masoud Askari Sarvestani, Ph.D, Editor, Rahavard Persian Journal "I recommend this book to everyone; not only does it weave a beautiful spell with its artful rendering of scenes. . . it speaks of the deep love between father and daughter, as well the inseparability of art and freedom." --Dr. Helene Saraj, Director, Foundation Culturelle Bahar, Paris"