Recite in the name of the red rose
Subtitle: poetic sacred making in twentieth-century Iran
By: Fatemeh Keshavarz.
Series: Studies in comparative religion; Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781570036224
Subjects: Persian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Holy, The, in literature.
Description: "Recite the Name of the Red Rose introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives and writings of modern and classical poets, Fatemeh Keshavarz provides an unprecedented systematic examination of the array of religious impulses to recent Persian verse. Viewing poetry as the site of the emergence of the self and the sacred, she confirms that sanctification is not static in its forms but continuously in flux and that the poetic modes used to articulate the sanctified are equally fluid."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The "imaginative struggle with language": a story told in the thickness of oil; title: 2. "The primordial mysteries, neither you understand nor I": the changing sacred in premodern Persian poetry; title: 3. "I was heading for God's quarters": resignifying the poetic idiom for modern spiritual expression; title: 4. In "the fragrant core of a fertilized egg": merging the feminine, the natural, and the spiritual; title: 5. "Infinite" fruits in the basket of poetry: resignifying the mystical idiom for spiritual expression; title: 6. "Hurry, Nazarene, hurry!" true prophets do not turn back nor do they die; title: Epilogue. An infinite basket for infinite fruits: methodological conclusions.