{"id":474,"date":"2009-10-22T20:16:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=474"},"modified":"2009-10-22T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:16:42","slug":"anthology-of-protest-poetry-summer-2009-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/anthology-of-protest-poetry-summer-2009-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Anthology of Protest Poetry ‘ (Summer 2009 Iran)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Drawing by Mahnaz Badihian<\/div>\n

\n ‘Anthology of Protest Poetry “(Summer 2009 Iran) which will be available in Farsi soon, with English\/Italian\/Spanish translations shortly. This Project is a joint effort between Dr. Mahnaz Badihian (poet, educator and activist) and Azadeh Davachi (poet and translator). For any ideas, suggestions or questions please contact publisher@mahmag.org. Below is a poem from that Anthology titled ‘Tango in Evin’ by Azadeh Davachi.<\/p>\n

Guantanamo or Evin
\nThey are only words
\nThat pass through the
\n Incomplete understanding of geraniums
\n<\/b>…
\nTango in Evin<\/i>*<\/p>\n

By Azadeh Davachi<\/p>\n

Translated from Farsi by Mahnaz Badihian<\/p>\n

This music has a good beginning,<\/p>\n

Bach’s symphony or Beethoven,<\/p>\n

Tango or Salsa<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter<\/p>\n

What matters are minutes without oscillation<\/p>\n

Which pass through music<\/p>\n

In voiceless cells, you must<\/p>\n

Start with unpleasant moves<\/p>\n

Even if you are unicellular, without a head<\/p>\n

Who is weary of lengthy days<\/p>\n

Or a brain with no warden<\/p>\n

That smells like slogans<\/p>\n

It is a good beginning<\/p>\n

If your mouth didn’t have a roof<\/p>\n

And your jaw<\/p>\n

Doesn’t tire from movement with music<\/p>\n

Guantanamo or Evin<\/p>\n

They are only words<\/p>\n

That pass through the<\/p>\n

Incomplete understanding of geraniums<\/p>\n

You must dance<\/p>\n

Until the final act<\/p>\n

When someone says ‘Cut’<\/p>\n

But you will not finish<\/p>\n

With the last symphony<\/p>\n

With pale bricks<\/p>\n

You will dance the tango<\/p>\n

* Evin is a notorious political prison in Tehran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Anthology of Protest Poetry “(Summer 2009 Iran) which will be available in Farsi soon, with English\/Italian\/Spanish translations shortly. This Project is a joint effort between Dr. Mahnaz Badihian (poet, educator and activist) and Azadeh Davachi (poet and translator). For any ideas, suggestions or questions please contact publisher@mahmag.org. Below is a poem from that Anthology titled […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}