Author: Firoozeh Papan-Matin
Publisher: Ibex Pub
Keywords: shamlu, ahmad, poems, love
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 1588140377
ISBN-13: 9781588140371

Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) is among the most celebrated figures of contemporary Iranian literature. The poems presented here, capture ShamluÂ’s unique depictions of love. The narrator in these poems is a man intoxicated by the love of a woman; a woman whom we meet in the body of his love poetry; a female presentation whose characteristics are not fixed. Due to Shamlu’s widely recognized prominence within the intellectual opposition, the mainstream approach to his poetry has largely evaluated it in terms of the socio-political background of the poet’s era. Taking issue with this li