In Ghazal Games, Iranian-American poet Roger Sedarat approaches the ghazal, an ancient Arabic form with its roots in Persia and dominance in Urdu-speaking countries, not with the usual solemnity but as a site of playfulness and invention. Gone is the nostalgic melancholy of Agha Shahid Ali, or the usual moroseness of the Urdu masters, and we aren’t quite yet in the silted, sublime world of Canadian ghazal-poets like John Thompson or Phyllis Webb.