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Woman Life Freedom

Woman Life Freedom

Poems for the Iranian Revolution

By Bänoo Zan & Cy Strom

This international anthology marks a world-historical moment: the first ever feminist revolution. The slogan chanted by the demonstrators in Iran is Woman, Life, Freedom, and it encompasses hopes and ideals for all people everywhere. This anthology echoes that cry. Poets and translators living on four continents are represented here. Their poems are reflections on the present moment, denunciations of injustice, examinations of the poets’ own consciences, laments for the fallen, bitter curses, prayers, celebrations of life, and visions of a better future. Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom aim to raise awareness of the women’s revolution in Iran and show the world that this cause is alive and will not be put down.

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Guernica Editions (Essential Anthologies)

978-1-77183-972-3

200 pages |

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Woman! Life! Freedom! A throbbing volume, pen searing and soaring poems that move the soul.

Lillian Allen, Toronto’s Poet Laureate, author of Make the World New

At times blazing, at times contained, these poems sing invocations from the page for dignity and freedom, tenderly mixing longing for homeland with rage and grief. This book proclaims that reading is an act of protest, solidarity, and revolution.

Jane Muschenetz, winner, California Press Women Communications Prize in Creative Verse, author of All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents

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About the author

Bänoo Zan is a poet, translator, essayist, and poetry curator, with numerous published pieces and three books. Songs of Exile was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was published in 2017. She is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Canada’s most diverse and brave poetry reading and open mic series (inception: 2012). Shab-e She'r bridges the gap between communities of poets from different ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, poetic styles, voices, and visions. Bänoo calls herself a war correspondent in verse. Others describe her as a political, metaphysical, and spiritual poet.

Cy Strom works as an editor. He holds MA and MPhil degrees in early modern European history and has published in academic and other areas, including the visual arts. He edits in different genres and sometimes languages, and has had a role in developing professional editorial standards and educational materials.