“Niloufar Talebi’s accomplishment in gathering the poetry of the Iranian diaspora is unprecedented and breathtaking. It is as if she has, by force of commitment and vision, and by way of cultural hunger, bequeathed a new literary heritage to Iran and the world...."
–Carolyn Forché, Editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness
“Niloufar Talebi has accomplished the ultimate magic trick in her clean and modern translation. She has made the work of modern Persian poets read like original English… an unparalleled contribution.”
–Willis Barnstone, Author of With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires
“Poetry is a world art because of brilliant editors and translators like Niloufar Talebi … Here are the poets, in all their power, defiance, dignity, wildness, and lyric grace, scattered across the earth, yet united in this book...”
–Martín Espada, Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Republic of Poetry
“In Belonging, with literary skill and passion, Talebi has overcome the obstacles of matter, time and space and made a major contribution to the recognition of contemporary Iranian literature in the West...”
–Nahid Mozaffari, Editor of the PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
“In my eighth year as a child growing up in Iran, I spontaneously composed a stanza, a poem, observing the falling of snow, when something took over and I knew it was poetry I was jotting down in a nylon-covered notebook...” Continue reading excerpt of the Introduction to BELONGING
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Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels), libretto co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Composer Mark Grey, Soprano Jessica Rivera. World Premiere at Carnegie Hall on March 29, 2011; West Coast Premiere, 4/3/2011 at Cal Performances.
Memory of A Phoenix Feather: Iranian Storytelling Traditions and Contemporary Theater in World Literature Today.
The Art (and Politics) of Translation in Tehran Bureau/Front Line.
They say it takes ten years to make a dancer and twenty to settle an immigrant, both of which I have been...” Continue reading “Against Longing” in ArteEast
Interview with Lynne Sharon Schwartz in the Writer’s Chronicle - Summer 2007
