Modern Iranian Poetry

About the Book

Modern Iranian Poetry offers new horizons of poetic vision and imagination by major contemporary Iranian poets such as Nima, Shamlu, Forugh,Sohrab.The poetic English rendition provides the English reading public with a unique insight into the subconscious culture of a nation that has mystified the world. Poignant and lyrical, the poems generate visionary moments of clairvoyance for the experience of post modern life with all its wonder and complexity.

Iranian poet and translator, Saeed Saeedpoor studied English literature in the U.S., where he lived for 12 years. He has won high critical acclaim for his poetic and precise renditions of Persian poetry into English and the reverse, published in meticulous bilingual editions. His translations include:
From Shakespeare to Eliot and Beyond: Anthology of English poetry presented in Persian.
Our Voice Today: Modern Iranian poetry rendered into English.
Emily Dickinson’s selected poems & letters
Khayyam’s Rubaiyat: An authentic rendition into English
Quatrains (Unesco edition)
Ahmad Shamlu’s selected poems( to be published)

About the Author

Born in Tehran in 1956, Saeed Saeedpoor studied English literature in the U.S.A from 1977 to 1989, where he published some works. Since his return to Iran, he has been writing and teaching English literature in the university, in addition to being Unesco’s chief editor in Tehran office.