The Scar Saloon [Paperback]

SHOLEH WOLPE (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off, Sholeh Wolpé writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common. --Billy Collins

Sholeh Wolpé s poems are political, satirical, and unflinching in the face of war, tyranny and loss. Talismanic and alchemical, they attempt to transmute experience into the magic of the imagined. But they also dare to be tender and funny lyrical moments. This book is remarkable and unexpected. --Chris Abani

The Scar Saloon is a humane and compassionate book in which horror is balanced by love, pain by pleasure, denial by sensuality, seriousness with humor. Many of the poems are set in the Middle East, but Sholeh Wolpé is clearly a poet of the world. --Charles Harper Webb

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Red Hen Press (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188899603X
• ISBN-13: 978-1888996036
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sholeh Wolpé is an award-winning poet, literary translator and writer. Born in Iran, she has lived in England, Trinidad and the United States. She is the author of Rooftops of Tehran, The Scar Saloon, and Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad for which she was awarded the Lois Roth Translation Prize in 2010.
Sholeh is the editor of The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its exiles (Michigan State University Press), a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East edited by Reza Aslan (Norton), and the editor of 2010 Iran issue of the Atlanta Review which became the journal's bestselling edition.
She is also a contributing editor of Los Angeles Review of Books and the poetry editor of the Levantine Review.
Sholeh's poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide, and have been translated into several languages. Sholeh holds Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She lives in Los Angeles.