| #11420008 in Books | 1999-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 83 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Majid's work rings of Hafez, Rumi, and Lorca.|By A Customer|"Why do I speak in poetry? Because in this heavy mist, I cannot be a lighthouse For drifting boats." This is a poem by Majid Naficy from his first book published in English. Muddy Shoes is a solid handsome book published by Beyond Baroque. Majid Naficy is an Iranian poet in exile living in Los Angeles since 19|From the Publisher|The poetry of "Muddy Shoes" is born of great suffering yet affirms deep dignity and respect for that wider experience of the world, brought here through danger and carved out of solitude and reflection. Tragically, we are seldom allowed to
This book provides a sampling of poems written in exile from 1986 to 1994, drawn from my previous books, "After the Silence," "Sorrow of the Border," and 'Poems of Venice." It covers both periods of my life in America, when I was still rummaging in the ruins of the lost revolution in my homeland, Iran, and when I finally came to terms with my new situation in Los Angeles. A postscript added to the poems describes these changes in detail.
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