Mahvash Sabet
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Mahvash Sabet on how she got her poems out of Evin Prison with the bravery of the women of Iran
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I never consciously make a decision about what to say in a poem: the poem itself says itself. So the poem happens. It doesn’t happen because I have decided that it should happen. It wasn’t a conscious decision to write about nature. The nature just bubbled out.
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A woman walked out of Evin Prison in Tehran late one evening. Her face was pale from long confinement but her eyes shone bright.
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