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Rosa Jamali

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Unripe greengages

I’m unripe greengages,
born to add flavour –
my birth a necessity

© Translation: 2010, Rosa Jamali

Unripe Greengages

Unripe Greengages

© 2010, Rosa Jamali

Rosa Jamali

Rosa Jamali

(Iran (Islamic Republic of), 1977)

Rosa Jamali was born in November 1977. She studied Drama at the Art University of Tehran. Her first book, This Dead Body Is Not an Apple, It Is Either a Cucumber or a Pear, was published in 1997, and opened Persian poetry to new creative possibilities. Through broken syntax and word-play, she described a surreal world in which words have lost their real meanings and have simply become jumbled o...

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Unripe greengages

Like a hanging jug

Suppose that I’m inevitable

The bull year

The clock cell

The flintstone

The Only Resident of this House is the Gloomy Hawk

The Last Street of Tehran

Close

Unripe greengages

I’m unripe greengages,
born to add flavour –
my birth a necessity

© 2010, Rosa Jamali

Unripe greengages

I’m unripe greengages,
born to add flavour –
my birth a necessity

© 2010, Rosa Jamali

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