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Rosa Jamali

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November 19, 1977 in Iran

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Poet, Playwright,Critic & Translator
A Bachelor Of Drama From The Art University Of Tehran
Rosa Jamali was born in November 1977. She studied Drama in the Art University of Tehran.Her first book ' This dead body is not an apple, it is either a cucumber or a pear'was published in 1997.Pretty soon there were quite a lot of reviews on the book in the literary magazines. She describes an absurd world in which words have lost their real meanings, they're just objects jumbled in the world. She breaks the syntax & there are quite a lot of word plays. The main theme of the book is the identity of objects & the objects are coming from a modern everyday life with all its necessities. Very soon the book with all its suggestions opens a new p...morePoet, Playwright,Critic & Translator
A Bachelor Of Drama From The Art University Of Tehran
Rosa Jamali was born in November 1977. She studied Drama in the Art University of Tehran.Her first book ' This dead body is not an apple, it is either a cucumber or a pear'was published in 1997.Pretty soon there were quite a lot of reviews on the book in the literary magazines. She describes an absurd world in which words have lost their real meanings, they're just objects jumbled in the world. She breaks the syntax & there are quite a lot of word plays. The main theme of the book is the identity of objects & the objects are coming from a modern everyday life with all its necessities. Very soon the book with all its suggestions opens a new panorama in creative Persian poetry.
Her second collection of poetry was published in the same year'Making a face'.In this book you confront the application of different types of discourse, sometimes archaic sometimes colloquial, spoken, written, formal, informal, journal like, reporting, scientific & so. Her erotic poems & the challenge she describes boldly throughout poetry.She has adapted a kind of music from classical persian poetry & has given it the natural tone of speaking.The way she narrates is the stream of consciousness.She tries to mingle the long and short phrases . Her bitter sense of humour and the creative points she offers in the style makes her work distinctive.
During these years she writes a number of book reviews and critical articles and she explains her views throughout reviewing others poetry.
Her third book of poetry came out in 2002.'Making Coffee To Run A Crime Story'.In this book there's a long poem by this name, a long dramatic poem which comes across the most important persian long story'Blind Owl' by 'Sadegh Hedayat'. In blind owl the narrator of the story who is a man chops a woman to pieces and in this poem on the contrary the woman does the job. The descriptions are the ones you see in crime fiction but here the narrator exists
inside the story and the point of view changes very often. The words are so cruel and rough that you can't believe a woman has written that. In an Interview she says:
'I've been inspired by mythologicl women and Greek tragedies as Medea who kills her children and sets the fire to burn, as Antigone who doesn't know a place to bury her brother and in the history of Islam there's a woman who's called 'Hendeye jegarxar'who is a fame in cruelty who eats the fallen pieces of Prophet Mohammad's uncle.Also I've been inspired by crime fiction, but there's a point you see in Greek tragedies a murder is a sacrifice and to set one's free and for salvatrion but in a civilized society as Dostoyevski describes in 'crime & punishment'when Roskolnikov kills he falls to regret. In my poem I wanted to convey that old mythological significance.'
The poem has got a lot references to bible, mythes & characters.
In other poems of this book again you see the poet creates the atmosphere of a machinary life.
In her recent poems she talks about death & love from a philosophical point of view as Omar Khayyam did so many years ago.A book named ' The sand glass which has fallen asleep…'
She has also translated a selected poems of Yeats to Persian.
'The shadow ' is a play by Rosa Jomali. The police is seeking for a murderer, a woman but he's found eleven women resembling the murderer. The setting is a room.There are two women in black, covered their hair in black headscarves confronting in a shelter.They were born on the same day and they've got one name.They both married a man called Parviz.
A challenge of identity let them kill each other. At the end a third woman exactly like them enters the same room, finding a piece of paper: 'The police has arrested 13 women by that face, two were found dead.'
'Here Gravity Is Less', her selected poems is under print now. .. (less)

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A Moving Picture of Tehran( A review on Granaz Moussavi's "My Tehran for Sale")

Unlike many other Iranian award-winning movies favoured by the western festivals, exploring either the rural life , illiteracy, tribal conflicts or poverty, Granaz Moussavi's "My Tehran for Sale" is a unique tale revealing all the secrets and mysteries hidden behind the scene and it can be taken as a genuine and unswerving picture of this tumultuous, contradictory and hectic lifestyle in... read more »

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Books by Rosa Jamali

Average rating: 3.17 · 30 ratings · 4 reviews · 4 distinct works

	اين مرده سيب نيست يا خيار است يا گلابي/This Dead Body Is not an Apple, It's Either a Cucumber or a Pear 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	دهن كجي به تو/Making a Face 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Making Coffee to Run a Crime Storyبراي ادامه اين ماجراي پليسي قهوه اي دم كرده ام 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	این ساعت شنی که به خواب رفته است...The Sand Glass's Fast Asleep! 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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Chesslike City, Tehran (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 20, 2011 10:05am

Description: (TRANSLATED FROM ORIGINAL PERSIAN TO ENGLISH BY THE POET.)

The Last Street Of Tehran ( Translated from original Persian to English by the auther ) (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm

Description: Selected Poems

Making Coffee To Run A crime Story (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm

Description: ( a long poem translated form original Persian to English by the poet.)

سايه/ يك نمايشنامه نوشته ي رزا جمالي (Drama)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:34pm

Description: متن كامل را در سايت رزا جمالي بخوانيد

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Rosa Jamali gave to: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens	My rating:
Quite a remarkable book by Dickens and how a reversal of fortune could change the life of people dramatically which I guess Dickens is a master of picturing all unpredictable possiblities ... the plot was totally twisted, Marshalsea's vision down and...more
Jul 19, 2011 08:57am · see review
Rosa Jamali is now friends with Shahram geravandi
Jul 19, 2011 08:43am
Rosa Jamali wrote Chesslike City, Tehran : - " You see the city in my vessels fast asleep Like the obscure web ov" …more
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Rosa Jamali gave to: Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher by Alice C. Hunsberger	My rating:
A travel book which is much more inspiring than Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"! Nasir Khusraw describes the smells and tastes and sceneries much better than several issues of National Geography! His prose which is archaic Persian of Khorasan prov...more
Aug 16, 2010 09:31am · see review
Rosa Jamali gave to: Perfume by Patrick Süskind	My rating:
I'm a murder story lover and this is one of my favourite books and what's more precious than perfume? To give brith to beauty you have to pay the price , it comes so tragic sometimes but it's the price ,.. I have always loved scented stuff like tea a...more
Jan 24, 2010 12:43pm · see review
Rosa Jamali gave to: Navigable Waterways (Yale Series of Younger Poets, #20) by P.L. Alexander (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
For many many times I read this collection of poetry and I really enjoyed it. Pamela Alexander's poetry seems quite appealing to me , her poems sound language-based at first but when you go deep through the poems you see a sophisticated language twis...more
Jan 07, 2010 11:45am · see review
Rosa Jamali gave to: The Expanse Of Green: Poems Of Sohrab Sepehry by سهراب سپهری	My rating:
To me , he was the most prominent figure in Iranian contemporary poetry, I learned a lot from him and I always assume his last collection as a panorama to the avant garde movement in Persian contemporary poetry , the halo of a great poet was with ...more
Dec 25, 2009 07:42am · see review
Rosa Jamali gave to: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams	My rating:
It really moved me when I saw it on the stage and for a long long time I lived with Laura who was as delicate as her glass menagerie , I never forget the scene in which the pieces broke and the dramatic sound of it on the stage, ... like a big bang i...more
Dec 24, 2009 02:52am · see review
Rosa Jamali made a comment on Laura's profile "Honey, we both love food and poetry !O'the inspiring Mistress of Spices , I see quite a lot of gourmet dishes and that gastronomical sense in your bo...more"
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Quotes by Rosa Jamali

“تاريك بود
با عناصرِ فلزي اش ولغزندگيِ يخ كه بر من آوار شد
ماهي چروك كه روي سايه ام راه مي رفت...ماهياني ست كه به گور ريخته ام...

خاطره اي عتيق كه روي سقف آويزان است!...

قرن هاست كه ادامه دارد

رويِ صورتكي كه حرف مي زند

اداهايش شكل مي گيرند....

يخ ها كه مي ريزند... شاخه هايِ مشبكم شكسته اند...

عروسك كاغذي ما بود

كه بر باد داديم اش

و نقش اش كهنه شد بر سقف”
― Rosa Jamali

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“نمي شد به بازي عقربه ها پايان داد
به ثانيه هاي شكسته برنمي گرديم
روزهايي كه در پي هم چيده ام
و اسب هايي كه از بازي من گريخته اند”
― Rosa Jamali

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“رگ هاي من است اين شهر كه به خواب رفته است”
― Rosa Jamali

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