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Saffron Flavored Rock Candy Vol. 1 is released

Soodabeh Saeidnia

Soodabeh Saeidnia

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I am honored to announce that the bilingual anthology of short poems and haiku, Saffron Flavored Rock Candy is now released. The book includes poems of 20 poets (a few of them are OAF members) together with their translation in Persian language. I benefited from help of two poets, Anooshka Khazaeie (Iranian-Canadian) and Aimal Zaman (Afghan) whose translations include a vast range of Farsi words used in both official Iranian and Afghan dialects. The cover art was contributed by Ms. Seyedeh Masoumeh Hosseini, a well-known Persian curator and artist.
The benefits of sales go to purchase more hard copies and distribute them in the Farsi speaking communities who has no access to Amazon or can’t afford the purchase.
Please be generous and support us in this project either by submitting your poems or by ordering some copies.
I promised myself to run this, one bilingual anthology title each year, as long as it’s possible for me and so far it’s been going promising.

~ the second volume is under processing, will be released in two weeks.
~Call for submission for 2020 will be opened in December 2019.

thank you very much in advance

Amazon product ASIN 1795856327
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Congratulations
it looks wonderful

and so charitable that all proceeds go to offering free copies
to those in Farsi speaking areas of the world
who could never afford to buy them

i see from the back cover
OAF members in between the covers

Dick Holmes
Jordan Trethewey
Jay Gandhi

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silent lotus said:
Congratulations
it looks wonderful

and so charitable that all proceeds go to offering free copies
to those in Farsi speaking areas of the world
who could never afford to buy them

i see from the back cover
OAF members in between the covers

Dick Holmes
Jordan Trethewey
Jay Gandhi

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Thank you silent! You and your beloved wife, Nermin, have always been so supportive regarding this project. Her wonderful artwork will shine on the cover of the second volume :)
 
Jay Dougherty said:
Congrats. Please keep us informed of your experience with this project and of how sales go on Amazon.
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Thank you for visiting and asking. This is the first time I publish a print book through kindle. I have already worked with CreateSpace which was recently merged with kindle. They don’t support Farsi letters and so we needed to make pictures of all Farsi text ..,a long process and extra work!
Sales is fine now; it was the #1 hot new released in the category of haiku and Japanese anthology for 4 days. It will be reduced by the time.
 
Congratulations to the poets who contributed to the second volume of the bilingual anthology, Saffron Flavored Rock Candy. The vol 2 is now available on Amazon!
Contributors:
Michael Lee Johnson, @Morgan Driscoll, Nancy Day, @Paul Brookes, Phillip Jones, Rajnish Mishra, Ranjana Sharan Sinha, Rini Valentina, Sandra Henry, Sarah Emtage, Scott Thomas Outlar, Sheikha A., Shirani Rajapakse, @silent lotus, Stefan Bohdan, Steve Denehan, Tim Duncan, Ton Romus, Umit Sener Ta, Vincent Zepp.
Artwork and Image: Saffron Lily by "Nermin Kura" (Thanks to Nermin for her kind and beautiful contribution)

Amazon product ASIN 1691427020
 
silent lotus said:
the congratulations should go to
@Soodabeh Saeidnia
for her heroic efforts to continually share p0etry with the underserved Farsi speaking communities around the world

her publications are unique
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I wish I could build a bridge between cultures and languages in the middle of such a hodgepodge in the world :(
Thank you silent for the kind words. All contributors shared something priceless, we call it “Dorr” in Farsi which means pearls of the word.
 
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