He is the author of four poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize,[1] Ghazal Games (Ohio University Press, 2011),[2] Foot Faults: Tennis Poems (David Roberts Books, 2016), and Haji as Puppet: an Orientalist Burlesque, which won the Tenth Gate Prize for a Mid-Career Poet (Word Works, 2017).
Co-author and co-translator of "Nature and Nostalgia in the Poetry of Nader Naderpour (Cambria, 2017), he received the 2015 Willis Barnstone Prize Award in Translation.
Trained as an Americanist, his early study of American poetry, New England Landscape History in America Poetry: a Lacanian View (Cambria, 2011), relates the verse of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Lowell to the figuration of landscape history through psychoanalytic theory.
Extending the current trend in transnational studies back to the figural origins of both the United States and Iran, Sedarat's comparative readings of Platonism and Sufi mysticism reveal how Emerson managed to reconcile through verse two countries so seemingly different in religion and philosophy.
By tracking various rhetorical strategies through a close interrogation of Emerson's own writings on language and literary appropriation, he exposes the development of a latent but considerable translation theory in the American literary tradition, further showing how generative Persian poetry becomes during Emerson's nineteenth century, and how such formative effects continue to influence contemporary American poetry and verse translation.