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The fruit of neither wakefulness nor sleep, Joobin Bekhrad's ninth volume of poetry tells of devotion, desire, and despair.

Drawing from his signature repository of stars, angels, and allusions to ancient Iran, Joobin Bekhrad brings to light a world of wonder ever obscured by the ordinary.

Joobin Bekhrad marries the earthly with the otherworldly and the base with the sublime in a volume of poetry as much about the flesh as it is the spirit.

One seemingly endless summer in Tehran, Asha, a brokenhearted schoolboy on sleepy Cypress Lane, finds himself with nothing to do. Nothing, that is, except daydream about escaping to London to become a rock and roll star, wait for Keith Richards and the Stones to come on the television, let his imagination run amok in his mum's closet, and pine away in vain for Arezu, the pretty girl upstairs who's hit it off with a classmate of his. Down an...

Bringing together an assortment of stories revolving around Iranian culture, With My Head in the Clouds and Stars in My Eyes tells at once the story of Bekhrad's beloved homeland as well as that of himself. Set in various places and dealing with a medley of subjects - from boozy debauchery and rock and roll to contemporary Iranian art and the mountains of Tehran - the stories provide a view of Iran as seen through the starry eyes of a roman...

In this volume of cryptic poems steeped in ancient Iranian religion, symbolism, and imagery, Joobin Bekhrad tells a tale of lovers devoted to the Iranian deity Mithras.

Gods, angels, and spirits good and evil teem in this supernatural collection of poems that picks up where 'Turncoats of Paradise' leaves off.

Replete with images of stars and heavenly bodies and mythological allusions, Stars Behind the Sun is a sensual collection of love poems that draws on Joobin Bekhrad's ongoing fascination with the ethereal.

The impact that the medieval Persian polymath Omar Khayyam has had on civilisation is perhaps best reflected in the reverence held for his groundbreaking mathematical findings and celebrated Robaiyat (Quatrains), not only in his native Iran, but also all corners of the world. Exhorting readers to seize the moment and enjoy the pleasures of life, as well as warning them about the ephemerality and infidelity of the world, Khayyam's philosoph...