Dr S Bejan Baran

Women Poetics Dr S Bejan Baran

WOMEN POETICS is a collection of 32 articles on 10 women poets in modern Iran. The list includes: Granaz Moussavi, Nahid Sereshki, Ziba Karbassi, Elahe Rahroniya, Pegah Ahmadi, Sheyda Mohammadi, Shahla Aghapour, and the Afghan-American poet Shahla Latifi. The book illustrates that love, eroticism, and literary tropes are different in women than in men poetry. The poetry and arts of 4 women are deconstructed in the 21 century with digital technology. Most of them have Facebook presence with a few thousands of followers and regular posting of their poems. There are painter-poets among the critiqued artists. Their poetics and arts are manifestations are correlated with the 100 functions of the brain and 12 ascetic principles. Among them are: creativity, imagination, balance, symmetry, proportionality, and contrast. A few poets get married or change direction; therefore their poetry ends in terms of publication. The women poetic characteristics are: poet orientation of describing her body parts, emotional disposition, neural detectors, reference to self, perspective, behavior, make-up, dress, language, recurring phrases, word substitution, narration, and readers.