The Art of Stepping Through Time (Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine, 2011), a selection of work by the Persian-language poet H. E. Sayeh, a highly regarded figure on the Iranian literary landscape, is a welcome addition to the slim body of modern Persian literature in translation. Sayeh is the pen name of Houshang Ebtehaj, born in Rasht in 1927. This book, the first collection of Sayeh’s verse to appear in English, is the result of a collaboration between native English speaker Chad Sweeney, an author of four books of poetry and native Persian speaker Mojdeh Marashi, an artist, writer, and translator.
