One of Iran's leading modern poets featured in all of his playful complexity.
Like his poems, Bijan Elahi 's own writings on translation (brought into English here for the first time), belong alongside such seminal western verse-translators as Ezra Pound.
--Roger Sedarat The hermit-poet of modern Persian literature, Bijan Elahi (1945-2010) was a modernist poet, a prolific translator of Eliot, Rimbaud, Michaux, H lderlin, and the founder of Ot.
Operating System Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts High tide of the eyes, paperback/bijan elahi
