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Zarrin
Poet Ali Zarrin muses on America
JEN GRAVES ; The News Tribune
On
Sept. 11, 2001, Ali Zarrin felt that people began to see a resemblance between
him and a hijacker, and the old fear crept back into his heart.
He
finds American foreign policy hypocritical but is increasingly afraid to say so
for fear of being labeled anti-American or worse.
"Coming from Iran
Zarrin, a poet, has been an American
citizen since 1976, six years after he immigrated from Iran Tacoma
Before Sept. 11, he wrote the poem
that made his name, "Made You Mine, America
"The
Book of I" is more critical of his adopted country.
"But
it isn't accepting cynicism as an option," said Tacoma poet and artist Dean
Brink, who organized the monthly Open Mic for Peace and Social Justice at the
Antique Sandwich Company, and who invited Zarrin. The two met when Zarrin was
completing his Ph.D. at the University of Washington
Now,
Zarrin, a father of two teenage sons, lives in Littleton , Colo. , and
teaches world literature at Regis
University in Denver United States
The
echoes of Ginsberg's "Howl" sound behind Zarrin's exclamatory "Made You Mine,
America
"You
can't turn me down/I gave you my youth/walking and driving Colfax nights long/I
came with hate/but now/I love you/ America
Those are the final lines of "Made
You Mine." "The Book of I" shouts: "Quit making everyone white!/Making everyone
in the world think like you!/America
Zarrin is against the war in Iraq and
questions why the United States is allied with Saudi Arabia, where women have
fewer rights than they do in "Axis of Evil" Iran, he said. He is chilled by what
he sees as an ongoing civil war over American ideology between fundamentalists
and progressives.
But
he has not been to Iran
"This is the only home I know," he
said. "There is no home to go back to. ... I'm a poet, and I want to talk about
poetry, but I have to talk about politics. It's the
zeitgeist."
Jen Graves:
253-597-8568
jen.graves@mail.tribnet.com
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you go
What: Reading
When:
7 p.m.
Thursday
Where:
Antique Sandwich Company,
5102 N. Pearl St. ,
Tacoma
Admission:
Free
Information:
253-752-4069
(Published 2:35AM, March 2nd,
2004)
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