Books for the Classroom

Books for the Classroom The following are a selection of titles that have been recently adopted for college courses. For exam copies of these or any other University of Arkansas Press book, see the instructor resource page. Title: The Collected Poems of John...
Breaking the Jaws of Silence

Breaking the Jaws of Silence

Sixty American Poets Speak to the World
Edited by Sholeh Wolpé
154 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
978-1-55728-629-1 (paper)
February 2013

 

Sin

Sin

Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
Edited and Translated by Sholeh Wolpé
978-1-55728-948-3 (paper)
Spring 2008

 

This poetry responds by bearing witness to oppression.

  Breaking the Jaws of Silence was reviewed in the May-August 2014 issue of World Literature Today. Wolpé has established her own work as a fearless poet in three collections, including Rooftops of Tehran. Both her aversion to oppression and her ability to...