Was this a conscious decision and a way of maintaining a connection with the outside world? Where did it come from? What I find very interesting is the contrast between the environment you were in, where you had no access to nature, and how your love of nature totally shines through in your poetry. One theme that really stands out for us in your poetry is nature and your love of nature. I would just rip it apart, throw it away and think, ‘I need to work harder and write something more proper’. My work was bureaucratic, in an office, so whenever I would write – my work involved writing a lot of letters – I would look at my written work and I would say, ‘Oh this looks like a piece of poetry’. I want to say something that probably isn’t going to be very beneficial to me but I’ve always had an internal clash or struggle or fight with poetry. But I never had time to actually sit down and write poetry. Often my thoughts were actually poetic in nature, I would use poetry in my thoughts. I always loved poetry and literature from early childhood. While I understand that you had written some poems before I believe this was your first collection? You spent nearly ten year in prison in Iran for your faith and your work on behalf of the Bahá’í community, during which time you wrote remarkable poetry. Based on translations by Violette and Ali Nakhjavani. So there I stood on the summit of the loftiest peak:Īdapted from the Persian by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani.
Holding it taut between my outstretched arms.Īnd as I struggled to keep those frozen poles apart,Īnd melt them wondrously between my two hot palms.
I found myself at the axis of the earth for a moment,
Last night, in the midst of unsettled darkness, We spoke to poet Mahvash Sabet about her connection to nature, writing poetry while in prison, and why, after all, life is beautiful.
0 kommentar(er)
