Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin

Document Type : Book Reviews

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Assistant professor of English language and Literature, Department of English language and Literature, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

Abstract

Many books and articles have been written on Sohrab's life and poetry. Among them is a new and a different one: Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin (2022), in which the author looks at Sohrab's poetry and life from a new and a different angle. Bahar Davari Ardakani, professor of theology at the University of San Diego, deals with Sepehri's poems from the perspective of religion and environmental theology. This book has an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion. The author, in first and fourth chapters, compares Sepehri with James Baldwin (1924-1987), an American novelist, playwright and social critic. She analyses the shared ideas of the two authors, that is, intellectual decolonization and opposition to new idolatries such as consumerism and militarism. This book, through Baldwin and Sepehri, aims to point out the role of poets in rewriting history and changing the moral world.

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Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Arts and Humanities
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 10
August 2025
Pages 279-286

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  • Receive Date: 02 October 2024
  • Revise Date: 21 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 26 January 2025

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