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A Brief History of Persian Literature

mahmag  •  24 July, 2006

A Brief History of Persian Literature
The Persian Language
The Old Persian of the Achaemenian Empire, preserved in a number of cuneiform inscriptions, was an Indo-European tongue with close affinities with Sanskrit and Avestan (the language of the Zoroastrian sacred texts).
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Poetry and reality by Oretta

mahmag  •  10 July, 2006

The difference between poetry and reality? Between nature and its description in poetic form? There is none: poetry like nature is part of reality in the broadest sense of the term. The only discriminant, which
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Edna St. Vincent Millay

mahmag  •  22 May, 2006

first woman to receive Nobel prize in poetry


Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. Her mother, Cora, raised her three daughters on her own after asking her husband to leave the family home in 1899. Cora encouraged her girls to be ambitious and self-sufficient, teaching them an
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poem by; Faramarz Soleimani

mahmag  •  17 May, 2006

Faramarz Soleimani


Literature: Poems of Iranian Poet, Faramarz Soleimani

Translated to English by M. Alexandrian
Nostalgia (When I return home...)
When I return home
mother expects me,
she stands with water, mirror and the Quran at the doorstep,

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Michael R. Burch

mahmag  •  08 May, 2006

Michael R. Burch

Michael R. Burch is the poetry editor of The HyperTexts. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared over 400 times in literary journals and sundry publications in the USA,

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Esmail by Mahnaz Badihian

mahmag  •  03 May, 2006

Esmail….

For Esmail Khoi(Iranian poet in exile)

I am talking to you Esmail
When was the last time you had a sip
From the Caspian Sea
For dreams to come through

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Black Dress by Julie Enszer

mahmag2  •  28 April, 2006

Julie Enszer
BLACK DRESS

by Julie Enszer

Linen, long. Two slits on the side.
I had one exactly like it,
but it was purple with two patch
pockets. One winter, I stored it
until spring. It was lost. I snatch
this black one off the rack. I want
it mostly for memory. I wore
that purple dress when my life was
less complex. I was single.
I want to recapture that, but
this new dress is stiff. It scratches
my back. I want to wear it sans
brassiere but it demands support.
No matter, soon it, too, will be lost.

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Esmail Khoi

mahmag  •  26 April, 2006

Esmail Khoi
khoi


From Forough's Grave,
Translated to English by M. Alexandrian

I'm returning from Forough's grave,
Dark.

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Exiled Poet - Reza Baraheni

mahmag2  •  17 April, 2006

Reza Baraheni
Reza Baraheni is a fomer Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tehran, also former President of Canadian PEN. Below is a few poems form a book of poetry he published in English in 1976, God's Shadow: Prison Poems is a collection of poems based on a period of 102 days spent in solitary confinement in Iran, during the time of the Shah. He was also imprisoned in the fall of 1981 and the winter of 1982 by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Nostalgia

Oh if a man could crawl out of here
as a snake or lizard, and go-no!
Grow wings
and take flight, fly
to a place where the world no longer resembles a dirty rumor
a place where the scorched feast of sand
stretches to be alone without
even hands or feet, without head, without cock
to be...
And the sea wash him constantly
like the luminous presence of a stone, smooth
circular
the sea wash him constantly
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Ahmad Shamlo

mahmag  •  07 April, 2006

Ahmad Shamlou
Shamlo- Ayda by Sodabeh Ghasemlo

Iran's most celebrated contemporary poet
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Rafael Guillen (1933 - )

mahmag  •  05 April, 2006



Rafael Guillen (1933 - )

According to the Mexican government, Marcos' real name is Rafael Guillén. Guillén studied high school
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Headless Babies by Mahnaz Badihian

mahmag2  •  02 April, 2006

Headless Babies

by Mahnaz Badihian

The room was filled with
Lost dreams. Music was from
Captured humans in the battle
For humanity!
They are still hopeful that angels
Are busy making headless babies
With human hearts.
With the manuscript for pre fabricated
Head wrapped in their umbilical cord.

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A brand new face of me- by H. Bassiri

mahmag  •  02 April, 2006

brand new face of me

That night I felt far
Not alone or even away

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Modern Woman- poem by; M- Badihian

mahmag  •  08 March, 2006

Modern Woman
I am a restless woman
Mahnaz by Ario

A woman with strong shoulders,
That carries life.
With iron feet,

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Taraneh Javanbakht

mahmag  •  04 March, 2006

shore- jeffhale.com

The shore Of Silence

Grumbled again the tired wave of travel
in the charm of being in love with the

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