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Haleh Hatami

Poetry

Winter 2007

Fardid’s Stone

By Yadollah Royai, translated by Haleh Hatami

From the Persian.    The stone illuminated with a sickle and letters of the Persian alphabet (Nast'aliq script, honey tree, pistachio tree), a bee's hive, and the grape's fear of […]

Poetry

Winter 2007

Mansour’s Tomb

By Yadollah Royai, translated by Haleh Hatami

From the Persian.    Old Iblis Rose somberly And the children of the trenches Slept In the corners of never That day In the corners of never        The finger Was […]