Accosting the Butterflies: Selected Persian and English Poetry

Accosting the Butterflies is a translation of a collection of poetry published in Iran in 1994 by the same title, 'Khatab be Parvaneh ha'. The book was a revolution in contemporary Persian poetry as I introduced Postmodern Persian poetry. Poetry should use language itself to speak to our thoughts and desires by being multilingual, polyphonic, and deconstruct language to use a multiplicity of fragmented forms, sounds and descriptions, free of any constraints of form, rhythm, and narration. I...