Poets

Rosa Jamali is an acclaimed Iranian poet with numerous published books. Her poetry has been acknowledged by many scholars as the most influential and pioneering pieces written in Persian since the 90s.

She studied Dramatic Literature at the Art University of Tehran and later obtained her master's degree in English Literature from Tehran University. Her groundbreaking debut collection of poems, THIS DEAD BODY IS NOT AN APPLE, IT'S EITHER A CUCUMBER OR A PEAR; was published in 1997 and marked a pioneering and influential voice in Persian poetry, introducing new landscapes. Embedded in broken syntax and word plays, the text describes a surreal world in which words have lost their meanings and have become jumbled objects within everyday life. Her creative style brings forth alternative possibilities to the Persian tradition of poetry. The title poem is innovative and tricky, containing word plays with the meaning of objects, where the linguistic signifiers don't align with the signified. The speaker of the poems adopts a sarcastic tone when it comes to the banality of set phrases, dead metaphors, and collocations.

MAKING A FACE, with its stream-of-consciousness narrative poems, merges different registers and explores the possibilities of language poetry. The poet adopts a metric pattern from classical Persian poetry, blending it with the natural cadence of speech. The poem juxtaposes long and short sentences and employs satire when alluding to the classics.

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