Bijan Elahi | |
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| بیژن الهی | |
| Born | (1945-07-07)7 July 1945 |
| Died | 1 December 2010(2010-12-01) (aged 65) Tehran, Iran |
| Occupations | Poet, translator |
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| Children | 1 |
Bijan Elahi (Persian:بیژن الهی;pronounced[biː'ʒænelɑː'hiː]; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator.[1] He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of amodernist poetry movement in Iran calledThe Other Poetry (شعر دیگر).
Elahi's poems were posthumously published in two volumes:Vision (2014) andYouths (2015).Youths brings together what the poet’s calls his “young poems” (Javaniha, 233), many of which had been published in serial form prior to the 1979 revolution. Vision is a collection of four poem cycles that indicate the fullness of Elahi’s contribution to Persian literature.[2]
Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian have argued that "A considerable strand of Persian poetry today is directly and indirectly inspired by Elahi's inventions and inspirations."[3]
Elahi's poems have appeared in English inPoetry Wales,Waxwing,The McNeese Review, andTin House.The first book-length translation of his poetry appeared in 2019 under the titleHigh Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian.[4]
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