آفتاب لمانی / Lemon Sun

Ziba Karbassi (trans. Stephen Watts & Ziba Karbassi)

A book of breath / a breathing book / a first English language edition of Karbassi’s poetry / a collaborative inhale and exhale.

Ziba Karbassi—born in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, 1974—began writing poems from an early age. Her first book in Persian was published in her early twenties and, since then she has published regularly, with more than twelve titles now available not only in her mother tongue but internationally. Having left Iran in 1989, Karbassi has been widely translated (to date, her work has appeared in over fifteen languages) and she is widely regarded as an acclaimed poet living in exile. Karbassi’s dense, revolutionary and lyrical work achieves an intensity of space rare in contemporary poetry, and she has performed her work widely across Europe and America.