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    After the Memories Came
    After the Memories Came
    After the Memories Came
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    After the Memories Came

    By Siavash Saadlou

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    Poetry is as old as human, and as equally organized and chaotic as him. Nothing is as formidably indefinable as poetry. The only difference between prose and poetry is not their verticality; otherwise, all Japanese would be poetry! Defining is limiting. Verse may be definable but poetry is not. Every poet explains poetry as he understands it, and I see it as a flare of fused flow of feeling, fact, and fancy, funneled through a flowery figurative fabric fastidiously fashioned in a flash. It is a dream amid awakening; a chronic fidgeting hither and thither in search of a cornucopia of themes and motifs to be narrated stylishly into outlandish language. The poet hoists his lexical muscles amid his bathroom whistles and the daily bustles and nightly hustles, or amid foliar rustles.
    The great Italian Romantic poet, Giacomo Leopardi, clarified the function of poetry as not representational but creative. The poet sees the world as it is not; he forges a world, which is not. He is a creator, not an imitator. If the classic axiom of mimesis were to mainstream, poetry would be deemed as a tautologous tact.
    Therefore, every poem must sound idiosyncratic. And this truth irreducibly finds foothold in poems composed by Siavash Saadlou who has been capable of taming his feelings into melodious aromatic chunks of words, and who has been really able to gather rosebuds while he may.
    He owns a world like no other. He holds in hand a double-barreled gun; one shooting literary ammunitions, the other shooting literal questions. Characteristically he has much to say, and in an attempt to divide labor, he has committed part of his statements to poetry, which is not the only medium of his expression. Meantime, his bilingual mind can equally accommodate and procure phraseologies and figments that are genuine and unequalled.
    His motifs are far from simplistic Don Juanism or juvenile calf-love but sophisticated subject matters such as the perennial crusade between fact and fiction. What vexes him colossally are contradictions. Some of the oxymoronic strophes are so virgin brimming with antithetic notions, such as "the thief must have needed the bicycle more than we did"; or the bizarre dialog between two non-conversing entities, or the sense of alienation when love mouths combinations of language and slanguagethe sublime and the subliminal; pieta-like allusive images like "my grandfather died of cancer as I held him in my arms"; ethical references such as "smoking kills"; fresh phrases like "the sound of your breath; the build-up to another kiss"his depiction of the absurdity of life and the way his poetry "encapsulates nothingness" as an in-built refrain. All the above make him sound like a poet for all seasons. (Alireza Ameri, Ph.D.)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781481785679
    After the Memories Came
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    Siavash Saadlou

    Born in 1988, Siavash Saadlou is a bilingual poet, lyricist, journalist, literary translator, creative consultant, and ESL lecturer. His poems in Persian have appeared in a number of Iranian literary magazines. He has also translated American poets such as Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Bly, and Robert Hass. Saadlou studied Journalism BA and Creative Writing MA at City University London.

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      After the Memories Came - Siavash Saadlou

      Contents

      About the author

      About Alireza Ameri

      Acknowledgments

      Foreword

      A Tactile Tune

      Autumn Leaves

      Wasted Twinges

      La-la land

      Non-musical Melodies

      Carpe diem

      Miscarriage of Justice

      Hereafter

      The Contributions of Existence

      The Island and the Wind

      Immortal Mother

      Rooms in Disunity

      Imagining

      Solitude

      Immaculate Remembrance

      Separation

      The Quintessential Passage

      Colors with No Definition

      Stream of a Distraught Consciousness

      Reincarnation

      HAIKUS

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      To Mr. Rezvani whose teachings are timeless

      About the author

      Born in 1988, Siavash Saadlou is a bilingual poet, lyricist, journalist, literary translator, creative consultant, and ESL lecturer.

      His poems in Persian have appeared in a number of Iranian literary magazines. He has also translated American poets such as Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Bly, and Robert Hass.

      Saadlou studied Journalism BA and Creative Writing MA at City University London.

      About Alireza Ameri

      Born in 1970, Alireza Ameri, Ph.D., is a published bilingual poet, translator, lexicologist, interdisciplinary researcher, and lecturer.

      In early 2012, Dr. Ameri’s avant-garde approach to TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) entitled Impromptutoring© was published as a book by LAMBERT. Impromptutoring is an innovative way of teaching English vocabularies through art-tinted improvisatory tasks.

      Acknowledgments

      I wish to express my deepest debt of gratitude towards Dr. Abdolmahmoud Rezvani for the priceless gift of hope he bestowed upon me when the doom of despair loomed large.

      My heartfelt thanks go to Morteza Tehrani for his help on the finalization of this book. I also extend my appreciation towards Louis and Maria Loizou, and Edmund Morris.

      Last but not least, I am beholden to my mother whose love

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