A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans, an Anthology Book

	Foreword	15
	Preface	17
	Introduction	21
	namaz	33
	nowruz	35
	dastet dard nakoneh	36
	yeki bud, yeki nabud	37
	ta'rof	38
	shab bekher	40
	donya hamineh	41
	cheshmetun rowshan	42
	takhteh nard	44
	piri bad ast	45
	My Turn	46
	I Ain't No American Beauty Rose	47
	Five P.M. Express	48
	My Fifties-Theme Birthday Party	50
	Disassociation	52
	Why the hell American Revolutionaries bother the hell out of me ...	55
	Defeated	58
	In Exile	60
	Untitled	62
	Khorshid	63
	On the Way to the Caucasus (Crossing the Delijan Pass)	64
	The Secret Alley	65
	Darya Poshteh (an all-female sea resort)	66
	Knowing about War	67
	The World	68
	The Year of the Winds	69
	I Pass	70
	Exile, 1	72
	Exile, 2	73
	Transit Lounge	74
	Eid Nowruz in Seattle	75
	The Sound of Home	77
	Bombay Immigrant	78
	Learning Persian	79
	Origin	80
	A Word with Majesty	81
	Made You Mine, America	82
	Galloping: the original reds	88
	Elephants	91
	No. 2	94
	untitled	95
	The Untimely Traveler	96
	Season of Revival	100
	My Father's Shoes	104
	Morning Exercise	105
	Hybrid	108
	Exile	110
	Mother, Mother	111
	Uzumborun	112
	blindness of our depth	114
	Heaven's Fruit	119
	Martyrdom Street	125
	Paris Rendez-vous	139
	Ed McMahon Is Iranian	150
	The Eyebrow	152
	The Bricklayer	154
	Death Observed	174
	Search	176
	Tuesdays	196
	Persia, Iowa	206
	Mother Visits	209
	The Pelican	214
	Pregnant with Sorrow	231
	The Suffocating Sense of Injustice	239
	Finding Peace in the Iranian Army	245
	Children of the Revolution: Transnational Identity among Young Iranians in Northern California	255
	Authors' Biographies	277