tango solo - Mojtaba Pourmohsen

ISBN 9789186131210

„tango solo“, is a collection of poems on the circumstance of „solitude“. However, the poet exceeds the limits of common clichés and approximates complexity by simplicity. „solitude“, in these poems, does not find shape in common forms: here „solitude“ is created in the space of sex and black humor.

In „tango solo“, Pourmohsen discloses „himself“ to the reader. However, this „himself“ is not only limited to his person as an individual. „Nihility“ in a general context and the invalid existence of the individual, society, politics and culture, are the momentum of Pourmohsen’s poetry. In his poems, you will not encounter the beauties and beasts, you may expect. All characters, even beauties and beasts, pay solely tribute to „nihility“:

half a day, “solitude” in mind, then half a day your “solitude” in mind

„tango solo“ tells a story of the collapse of the social existence of people, of a nation, that is constrained by tradition versus modernity: their values collapse in a vacuum and whatever is called „solitude“ or not becomes the transcendence of „solitude“. At this point humor is exit:

´ feel cold / ´ fall in snow / ´ feel warm

92 pages, 6.14" x 9.21", perfect binding, white interior paper (55# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (90# weight), full-color exterior ink

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