This time a Persian rug: currents of contemporary Iranian poetry, translation: Hussein Tarefi Alawi

Iranian poetry is still written in the absence of prominent Iranian faces, and in recent decades, various currents of new Iranian poetry have been established, such as speech poetry (sher goftar), linguistic poetry (sher zabaan), workshop poetry (sher kargaah), simple and ordinary poetry (sadeh), the nineties poetry (sher deh y heh taad), and independent poetry. In this book, Professor Hussein Tarfii Al-Aywi translated the most prominent currents of contemporary Iranian poetry. He begins by defining the modern currents currently active in the Iranian scene, then returns to define the previous currents according to the chronological order of each current, mentioning everything happening in the Iranian poetic scene. He presents to the readers two recent currents within the existing and ongoing currents: the independent current and the simple current (sadeh). In light of the above, this book aims to be an important contribution to penetrating the depths of (Iranian) texts to reveal the poets' affiliations through the translated poetic text, not through the writings of Iranian poetic history, which has been recorded incorrectly in some books. All of this will lift the veil on hidden names in the world of Iranian poetry until the present moment and what changes they have caused through reading their poetic texts and documents acknowledged by the poets themselves, because the poetic text — as the translator says — is what reveals the poet’s affiliation. Therefore, this book includes a group of poets who influenced Iranian poetry, along with some poems that impacted the literary movement. Number of pages: 190.