Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri Persian سهراب سپهری Suhrāb Sipihrī 7 October 1928 - 21 April 1980 Was A Notable Modern Persian Poet And A Painter. He Was Born In Kashan In Isfahan Province. He Is Considered One Of The Five Most Famous Modern Persian Iranian Poets Who Have Practiced "New Poetry" A Kind Of Poetry That Often Has Neither Meter Nor Rhyme . Other Practitioners Of This Form Were Nima Youshij Ahmad Shamlou Mehdi Akhavan-Sales And Forough Farrokhzad All Of Whom Are Now Dead. Sohrab Sepehri Was Also One Of Iran's Foremost Modernist Painters. Sepehri Died In Pars Hospital In Tehran Of Leukemia. His Poetry Is Full Of Humanity And Concern For Human Values. He Loved Nature And Refers To It Frequently. The Poetry Of Sohrab Sepehri Bears Great Semblance To That Of E.E. Cummings. Well-Versed In Buddhism Mysticism And Western Traditions He Mingled The Western Concepts With Eastern Ones Thereby Creating A Kind Of Poetry Unsurpassed In The History Of Persian Literature. To Him New Forms Are New Means To Express His Thoughts And Feelings. His Poetry Has Been Translated Into Many Languages Including French English Spanish Italian Swedish And Russian. read less