Back in one of my first-year courses we studied Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, a graphic novel that chronicles Satrapi’s childhood as she lived through the Islamic Revolution.
This morning, I picked up the book and started re-reading it. If you have access to a library with Persepolis, I’d suggest taking a look. In true academia-form, I think our professor spoke about how the book had bias in its telling of the revolution, but where will you ever find a truly objective source? Persepolis does in graphic long form what we might try to do in poetry for this week’s prompt, approach it sensitively and subjectively.
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