Tag Archives: Iran
Sohrab Sepehri
This week in Little Star Weekly we feature a poem from the Persian of Sohrab Sepehri. Tonight I will say farewell. I have spoken to my neighbors through the wide-open window but don’t understand what they are talking about. Sohrab Sepehri was born in 1928 in Kashan, Iran, and was trained as a painter. In […]
Writers: Kazim Ali, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Sohrab Sepehri
Iran: Poems of Dissent
This week in Little Star Weekly we feature “In this Blind Alley,” by Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou, a poem dating from the days after the revolution of 1979. Shamlou (1925–2000) was born in Tehran and raised in the Iranian provinces, spending time in prison during World War II and after the British- and American-led coup of […]
Writers: Ahmad Shamlou, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
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Two Ghazals, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
LS contributor Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., sends new translations of two ghazals, one by the fourteenth-century master of the form, Hafiz-I Shirazi, and one from 2009, written by poet Simin Behbahani after national elections in Iran ended in mass demonstrations and violent crack-down. Hafiz-i Shirazi GHAZAL [Hijab-i chehr-i jan mishavad ghubar-i manam] The dust of […]
Writers: Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., Hafiz-I Shirazi, Simin Behbahani
“The Grand Lady of My Soul,” by Goli Taraghi
In front of me, in the middle of the desert, in that silent wasteland, there is a secluded garden sheltered by white walls. A half-open door summons me. I peek in. There is no sign of a human being. There are two rows of tall poplars flanking the surrounding walls and four aged cypress trees […]
Writers: Goli Taraghi
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