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Ahmed Shamlu (1925-2000) Ahmed Shamlu, one of the founding names of contemporary Iranian poetry, is the most read poet of the Persian language, along with Hafez. It crowned the liberalization attitude within traditional patterns, initiated by Nîmâ Yûşiç at the beginning of the century, with a revolutionary transformation in wide areas. Combining his experience nourished by the great Eastern poetry with inspirations from the leading names of contemporary Western poetry, from Mayakovsky to Lorca, from Eluard to Nâzım and Ritsos, Shamlu's poetry reflects the extraordinary sufferings of the Iranian people under the pressure of autocratic despots. is the subject and the witness. This testimony, in the words of Foruğ Ferrokhzad, "in whose depths wanders a child calling to life and the sun", has taken forms according to the rising and falling rhythm of the social movement, and has a lyrical form on the axes of hope-desperation, assertiveness-withdrawal, individual turmoil-mass rebellion. He created a poem unique to himself by embracing sound.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

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