Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic

Press Release:

Ohio University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic by Roger Sedarat, winner of the Hollis Summers Open Book Competition.
In selecting Dear Regime for the Hollis Summers Prize, David Lehman noted, "This is poetry that requires not only conscience but courage."
Other advance comments have included the following:
"Dear Regime is a stunning collection of poems that vividly captures all aspects of the Iranian culture."
                                            --Nahid Rachlin                                                author of Persian Girls
"Roger Sedarat mixes the surreal with the actual in a poetic landscape that is as terrifying as it is stunning."                                             --Kimiko Hahn                                                author of The Artisit's Daughter