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GHAZAL GAMES
GHAZAL
GAMES
POEMS
ROGER SEDARAT
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS, OHIO
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
© 2011 by Roger Sedarat
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sedarat, Roger, 1971–
Ghazal games : poems / Roger Sedarat.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8214-1950-2 (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4375-0 (electronic)
1. Iran—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3619.E33G43 2011
811′.6—dc22
2011016090
Acknowledgments
“Ghazal Game #1”: Taj Mahal Review
“Ghazal Game #1” (excerpt with commentary): Pen America: A Journal for Writers and Readers
“Sonnet Ghazal”: Literature and Gender (New York: Pearson Longman)
“Sonnet Ghazal” and “Inverted Ghazal”: The Drunken Boat
“Ghazal Game #2: Pin the Tail on the Middle Eastern Donkey”: Zoland Poetry
“The Sword”: Green Mountains Review
“American”: Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology, vol. 2
“Martyrs of Iran”: Atlanta Review: Iran Issue and Levantine Review
“Postmodern Ekphrasis Ghazal”: Foreign Policy in Focus (Poems Against the Regime)
“Protest Ghazal #1” and “Protest Ghazal #3”: IranJustice.com
“Perfect Translation” and “Farsi”: World Literature Today
“Cold Feet” and “Stone”: Ghazal Page
“Gazelle in a Ghazal” and “Ghazal Game #4: Matching (Match the poet to the following couplets)”: The Other Voices International Project
“Chador Bat, A Qasideh Ballad”: Storyscape
“Ghazal Game #11: Spin the Bottle” and “The Beard”: New Orleans Review
“Ghazal Game #12: Know Your Shakespeare,” “Found Ghazal,” and “Trapped in Form”: College English Notes
. . . you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms . . .
V. S. Naipaul
Contents
Ghazal Game #2: Pin the Tail on the Middle Eastern Donkey
The Persian Poet’s Recipe for Qormeh Sabzi
Ghazal Game #5: Product Placement
Bashō and Hafez: Japanese-Persian Fusion
