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Reading with Ali Abdollahi in Dresden
12.09.2023 at 7:30 pm
4€ – 6€Am 12. September comes Ali Abdollahi after Dresden, to introduce his books of poetry and his anthology “A Thief in the Dark Stares at a Painting.” The anthology was published by us in 2021 and is a collection of Persian-language poetry from the 21st century that Ali Abdollahi selected and translated together with Kurt Scharf.
More information about the reading can be found here: https://literaturnetz-dresden.de/veranstaltungen/ali-abdollahi-wetterumschlag/
A thief in the dark stares at a painting
The volume brings together a selection of poems by the most important contemporary Persian-language poets from around the world in the 21st century. It is published as a follow-up volume to the one published by our publisher Hold out at night until the wine to understand, which contains a selection of Persian poetry of the 20th century. A thief in the dark stares at a painting not only contains poems by Iranian poets, but also sets itself the task of reflecting the cross-border function of a literary lingua franca, which Persian has always had, in the selected poems. In this sense, not only Iranian authors are represented, but also the poems of Tajik and Afghan poets as well as those of aerial root writers who write in Persian.
