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Yadollah Royai (1932–2022), a seminal figure in modern and experimental Iranian poetry, was the author of eight books of poetry and four books of essays and interviews. His writing is the subject of several works of criticism. Royai was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Cyrus’s Stone
By Yadollah Royai, translated by Haleh Hatami
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Melancholia #6
By Forough Farrokhzad and Yadollah Royai, translated by Kaveh Bassiri
Night, at a gallop of the dark horsea line of trees remains.In the four galaxies of the horseshoe,a line of trees was passing without a neigh.A severed vein opened its […]
Melancholia #5
By Forough Farrokhzad and Yadollah Royai, translated by Kaveh Bassiri
For in the heavens,the binding of my travel journal.I sowed with the sun,in the limbless alleys, in the doorways empty of women,I was scorched by the sun.It’s hard to picture […]
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