“In Houman Harouni’s classes, power structures are questioned, discomfort is embraced, and even the act of teaching is subverted.”
Unrevolutionary Times
by Houman Harouni
Unrevolutionary Times, Dr. Houman Harouni's exhilarating debut collection, takes us on a journey of archetypes like no other in English-language poetry. What happens to the revolutionary soul in times when no revolution is at hand? Mixing contemporary poetic freedom with traditional Persian rhythm and form, Harouni supplies his readers with the opportunity to examine the context of their lives through the figures that often go unnoticed among us. With a contemplative universal perspective reminiscent of Wallace Stevens and Adonis, this collection will unearth the questions your heart asks but cannot speak.
“Harouni’s range of styles is nothing if not virtuoso…“
-James Kates, The Arts Fuse
Houman Harouni
Houman Harouni was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1982, and migrated, as a refugee, to the United States in 1997. His father was, for a time, a professional revolutionary, and his mother, for a time, a sociologist of revolution. He is a theorist of cultural transformation. His work moves across philosophy, political economy, history of science, psychology, theater, and literature, culminating in his pedagogy of Active Theory, which he has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 2015. His academic and journalistic writings have appeared in a wide array of publications, including The Guardian, PBS Frontline, The White Review, and the Harvard Educational Review. He has been awarded Fellowships at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education. Unrevolutionary Times is Harouni’s first collection of poems.
