A Cup of Sin : Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780815656975
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Syracuse University Press
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Subjects: Literature;

Simin Behbahani's collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped Iranian history: revolution and war. Behbahani balances artful inquiry and shocking realism in both her language and imagery to probe the depths of political, cultural, and moral oppression. In the traditional verse of the ghazal, she improvises with meter to echo and provide new interpretations.

Simin Behbahani was born Simin Khalili on July 20 1927 in Iran. She studied law at Tehran University in the 1950s. She became a poet who wrote of the joys of love, demanded equal rights for women, and spoke out about the challenges facing those living in her homeland. She was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom in 2009 and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature. She died of heart failure and breathing problems on August 14, 2014 at the age of 87.

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