I Ghahremans bitterljuva novellkonst flätar fantasins små under sig in bland vardagens trivialiteter. Så här bra blir det när en stor poet med humor i sinnet öppnar sig för novellformatets detaljrikedom.
Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. Born in Mashhad in 1962 and based in Sweden since 2006, Ghahreman is the author of five highly acclaimed collections. Her poems are lyrical and intimate, addressing themes of loss, exile and female desire, as well as the changing face of her country. Negative of a Group Photograph runs the gamut of Ghahreman’s experience: from her childhood in the Khorasan region of south-eastern Iran to her exile to Sweden, from Iran’s book-burning years and the war in Iraq to her unexpected encounters with love. The poems in this illuminating collection are brought to life in English by the poet Maura Dooley, working in collaboration with Elhum Shakerifar. Farsi-English dual language edition co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.
I novellsamlingen De mest jordiska sakernas anfall som skrevs 2007 och är tidigare outgiven presenteras för första gången Ghahremans prosa. Med humoristisk livssyn betraktar hon både barndomens Mashhad och det nya livet i Malmö.Azita Ghahreman debuterade 1990 och har utgivit ett flertal diktsamlingar. I svensk översättning finns sedan tidigare: Dikter: 4 diktsamlingar (2009), Under hypnos i Dr.Caligaris kabinett (2012) och Serendips loggbok (2013).
Serie Splint är en särimnergris som bökar upp tryfflar bland de författare i landet som skriver på främmande språk — och månar om översättningarna som en kycklingmamma. Serie Splint limmar ihop livskraftiga träd av språkdjungelns flisor, splitter och splint och publicerade av Smockadoll Malmö.
The poetry of Ghahreman was in “free verse” rather than “tight verse”.
A poet in love with words and images of a warmer climate, who nevertheless finds that through poetry she can find a way to live with the loss of her homeland:
“Vedere il mondo con gli occhi della cicogna”, poesie di Azita Ghahreman,
Sohrab Rahimi (Persian: December 20, 1962 – February 11, 2016 was an Iranian poet, born in Shahrekord, Iran. He has written five books in Persian and two books in Swedish. He has also translated Persian poetry.
Rahimi’s poems have been translated into various languages. Rahimi died in Sweden on February 11, 2016 at the age of 53.
Lighter than air is a collection of Miss. Azita Ghahraman’s poesy which is translated by Mrs. Nadiya Vishnevska to Ukrainian language and Mr. Sergey Dzyuba to Russian. In this collection the reader can find yourself as the poet and feel what she felt during her writing.
“جان داون” به خواب فرو رفته است و همه چیزها کنارش
به خواب می روند . دیوارها ؛ تخت و کفپوش – همه خوابند
میز و تابلوها ؛ فرش و پیچ ومهره و دودکش
گنجه لباس ؛ بوفه ی ظرف ؛ شمعدان و پرده ها –
هر شاعری پرسش‌هایی درباره جهان دارد… حالا چه در موقعیت زن بودن یا مرد بودن که هر دوی اینها در عین حال مربوط است به موقعیت انسان بودن ما . مثل جغرافیایی که ما در آن زندگی می‌کنیم یا دوره‌هایی از زندگی ما یا مسائلی که درگیرآن هستیم، هرکدام از این شرابط می‌تواند در یک کتاب یک فضای متفاوت ایجاد کند. در این کتاب پرسش‌های من بیشترمربوط به دوره ای از زندگی من درمهاجرت است
The corn poppies came first,
then the locusts
and after that the unravelling wind.
That was how childhood looked to you
before the dark water, before the thorns,
before the mountain range of a thousand mosques
cast shadow over those wild flowers.
First the poppies went
then grandmother,
then the royal rooms grew shabby,
the photos of Oppenheimer, Lumumba,
the red furniture – everything went to the second hand shop.
In the silence dreams came
and brought to mind your silhouette against the sky
and you changed into a bird carrying hurt bigger than your own.
shadow
and this brought to mind your cold, stained fingers,
those cut and folded wings placed in an envelope
and that brought to mind
how well we fought
to the bitter end.
