Sohrab Sepehri

A selection of poems from The Eight Books

By Sohrab Sepehri

2008

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The Iranian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is revered today for many of the things he was criticized for during his lifetime. Born and raised in the ancient city of Kashan, he was educated in Tehran and travelled widely. A gentle introvert by nature, he was accused of escapism when his reaction to the world around him was to go back to nature, mysticism and mythology, poetry and painting. This mystic of the twentieth century seeks a light that radiates from the individual soul and ultimately affects its relationship with others and the world around it. While Rumi, the mystic of the thirteenth century, dances, sings, and chants out loud that he comes from the world of spirit and is a stranger in the world of matter, Sepehri, quietly aware of humanity in a milieu alien to its physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, in poetry and painting, appeared to stroke human consciousness into a tranquility, almost a state of beatitude, which nevertheless is never quite free of the ongoing struggle for "awareness, understanding and illumination" Sepehri had a free and sometimes convoluted approach to the verities of life, insisting that the book of everyday "illusions" must be closed and ... . . one must rise And walk along the stretch of time, Look at the flowers, hear the enigma. One must run until the end of being . . . One must sit close to the unfolding, Some place between rapture and illumination. (Both Line and Space. Bk.8) In this fresh translation, Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid successfully conveys the meaning, feelings, and sensitivity of the Persian original allowing the reader to appreciate the pertinence of Sepehri to the twenty-first century.

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Sohrab Sepehri

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Sohrâb Sepehrî (Persian: سهراب سپهری‎) (October 7, 1928 - April 21, 1980) was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter. He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province. He is considered to be one of the five most famous modern Persian (Iranian) poets who have practised "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme). Sohrab Sepehri was also one of Iran's foremost modernist painters. Sepehri died in Pars hospital in Tehran of leukemia. His poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values. He loved nature and refers to it frequently. The poetry of Sohrab Sepehri bears great resemblance to that of E.E. Cummings. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism and Western traditions, he mingled the Western concepts with Eastern ones, thereby creating a kind of poetry unsurpassed in the history of Persian literature. To him, new forms were new means to express his thoughts and feelings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab\_S... سهراب سپهری (۱۵ مهر ۱۳۰۷ در کاشان – ۱ اردیبهشت ۱۳۵۹ در تهران) شاعر و نقاش ایرانی بود. او از مهم‌ترین شاعران معاصر ایران است و شعرهایش به زبان‌های بسیاری از جمله انگلیسی، فرانسوی، اسپانیایی و ایتالیایی ترجمه شده‌است. ستایش طبیعت و روستا و همچنین توجه به عرفان و نگرش توحیدی از مهم ترین مضامین شعری او بودند. وی پس از ابتلا به بیماری سرطان خون در بیمارستان پارس تهران درگذشت. دورهٔ ابتدایی را در دبستان خیام کاشان (شهید مدرّس فعلی) (۱۳۱۹) و متوسّطه را در دبیرستان پهلوی کاشان خرداد ۱۳۲۲ گذراند و پس از فارغ‌التحصیلی در دورهٔ دوسالهٔ دانشسرای مقدماتی پسران به استخدام ادارهٔ فرهنگ کاشان درآمد.در شهریور ۱۳۲۷ در امتحانات ششم ادبی شرکت نمود و دیپلم دوره دبیرستان خود را دریافت کرد. سپس به تهران آمد و در دانشکده هنرهای زیبای دانشگاه تهران به تحصیل پرداخت و هم زمان به استخدام شرکت نفت در تهران درآمد که پس از ۸ ماه استعفا داد. سپهری در سال ۱۳۳۰ نخستین مجموعهٔ شعر نیمایی خود را به نام مرگ رنگ منتشر کرد. در سال ۱۳۳۲ از دانشکده هنرهای زیبا فارغ التحصیل شد و نشان درجه اول علمی را دریافت کرد. در همین سال در چند نمایشگاه نقاشی در تهران شرکت نمود و نیز دومین مجموعهٔ شعر خود را با عنوان زندگی خواب‌ها منتشر کرد. در آذر ۱۳۳۳ در ادارهٔ کل هنرهای زیبا (فرهنگ و هنر) در قسمت موزه‌ها شروع به کار کرد و در هنرستان‌های هنرهای زیبا نیز به تدریس می‌پرداخت http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D... http://www.sohrabsepehri.com http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/8... see also Sohrab Sepehri https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...