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That Kind of Sleep
Copyright © 2001
by Susan Atefat Peckham
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This stunning National Poetry Series winner invites readers behind the
opaque curtain that has historically concealed the lives of modern and
traditional Iranian women. Susan Atefat Peckham's images alternately whet
and sting the senses as rich chador fabrics and earthy cooking scents
give way to juxtaposed scenes of female persecution and celebration. Love
for family and culture give this collection a touching glow. — from the jacket.
That Kind of Sleep is a pendulum between cultures, and I might add,
epochs. [Atefat Peckham] gives us a joy of flashes which makes us all
ancient and renewed in a paradise of language, dancing in spirals,
whirling, whirling. — Victor Hernández Cruz
The book is of epiphany and of hope, hope that struggles with
feelings of abandonment, confusion and insecurity, brought on by
life in a dysfunctional family. — Lincoln Journal-Star |
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