Sheema Kalbasi: Seven Valleys of Love
A Bilingual Anthology of Women Poets from Middle Ages Persia to Present Day Iran Translated by Sheema Kalbasi P.R.A. Publishing
ISBN: 978-09727703-8-5 Price: $14.95
Seven Valleys of Love is an anthology of poems written by Persian women throughout history, compiled and translated by Sheema Kalbasi. The book is bilingual, written in English and Persian, and contains poems from the Middle Ages (Persia) to modern times (Iran). Each poem is an in-depth look at a society where women are persecuted on a daily basis. The compilation demonstrates Kalbasi's dexterity in the fields of language, editing, and translation.
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Praise from Reviewers
"A superb book that demands to be held or cupped gently in the hand so not to spill the sumptuous beauty, light wit, and sharp-eyed acuity it is teeming with."
--Desi Di Nardo, Canadian poet
"A wonderful book to leaf around in...It invites us on a magical journey of reading and rereading these distant yet familiar women poets, of perceiving through their glass, whether darkly or brightly, the life of a society we yearn to know better."
--Ute Margaret Saine
Literary Champion of Human Rights
Sheema Kalbasi is an international human rights activist, an award-winning poet, and literary translator. She is the director of Dialogue of Nations through Poetry in Translation, director of Poetry of Iranian Women Project, the poetry editor of Muse Apprentice Guild, and co-director of the Other Voices International Project.
Kalbasi has authored three collections of poems to date: Echoes in Exile in English, Sangsar (Stoning) in Persian, and Seven Valleys of Love, written in both English and Persian.
Kalbasi's work has appeared in numerous magazines, literary reviews, anthologies, and her work has been translated into several languages. Kalbasi is one of the few literary figures to promote poets of Iranian heritage, as well as international poets, to English speaking audiences. Her work, which is distinguished by her passionate defense of ethnic and religious rights, can be followed on Sheema Kalbasi's website.
She has worked for the United Nations and the Center for non-Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and Denmark. She lives with her husband and two children in the United States.
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