The present book is the first volume of the bilingual series of anthology, Persian Sugar in English Tea. The translators attempted to gather the living contemporary and modern poetry from western poets, and employed the vast Persian vocabulary which is currently used in both Iranian and Afghan dialects. This respires a cool breeze of short poems and haiku over the subtle vibrations surfing on ocean and land, heaven and earth, life and death, love ... to build a bridge over the mysterious abyss between two languages and nations. This volume contains a separate section for children poetry decorated with illustrations for little kids.
About the Author: Soodabeh Saeidnia was born in Iran (1973) and received her PharmD and PhD of Pharmacognosy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran. She has worked as a Visiting Researcher and awarded a Foreign Researcher Fellowship to work as a Research Associate in Kyoto University, Japan, as well as Assistant and Associate Professor at TUMS and Visiting Professor at Saskatchewan University, Canada. She has written roughly 150 scientific papers for various academic journals, books and chapters in both English and Farsi. She is also interested in literature and poetry, and has published a collection of her poems, "Harfhaee- Baraye- Khodam" (Words for myself) and "A Poem and Three Generations" in Farsi. Soodabeh is currently living in Kew Gardens, New York. Her English poems have been published in different American, Canadian and British magazines and literary journals including Squawk Back, Sick Lit Magazine, Dying Dahlia Review, Sisyphus Quarterly, Paradox, TimBookTu, Babbling of the Irrational, Scarlet Leaf Review, SPINE, Tuck Magazine, La Libertad, Tiny Poetry, Indiana Voice Journal, The Pen, and 352 degrees. A number of her poems have been printed in the anthologies, The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker (by great weather for MEDIA), Where the Mind Dwells, American Poet, Dandelion in A Vase of Roses, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze and The Literacy Review NYU, vol.15. She is author of Street of the Ginkgo Trees, and translator and editor of the anthologies Voice of Monarch Butterflies (Middle Eastern Anthology by Ten Poets from Ganges to Nile), Apple Fruits of an Old Oak, Where Are You From? A Bilingual Anthology in English and Persian. Her micro-poems are daily updating on her Twitter @SSaeidnia. A number of her poems are routinely posted through her weblog https: //soodabehpoems.wordpress.com/ and Facebook https: //www.facebook.com/soodabeh.saeidnia