Chapbook (2024)

Poetry by Saba Pakdel

Published by above / ground press 

In May 2022, I published my first poetry chapbook In-Between (2022) by above / ground press. In my second chapbook Un-Composed (2024), I aim to further the argument of de-exoticizing languages in poetry by troubling the notion of the untranslatable through form. 

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Chapbook (2022)

Poetry by Saba Pakdel

Published by above / ground press 

Cover: Artwork by Hossein Pakdel

I'm an exophonic author writing poetry in two languages: one that I was born into, and the other that I migrated into. My chapbook is a display of two languages, English and Persian, that are not semantically in conversation with each other. What happens to be in conversation, though, is the self-translation of experiences into concepts. In this chapbook, I'm thinking through a larger project of de-exoticizing languages like Persian in poetry publications.

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