Bijan Elahi ( fa, بیژن الهی; ; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator. He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist poetry movement in Iran called ''The Other Poetry'' (). Elahi's poems were posthumously published in two volumes: ''Vision'' (2014) and ''Youths'' (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.

Rebecca Ruth Gould Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator, and Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her academic interests are the Caucasus, Comparative Literature, Islam, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, Persian li ...

and Kayvan Tahmasebian have argued that "A considerable strand of Persian poetry today is directly and indirectly inspired by Elahi's inventions and inspirations." Elahi's poems have appeared in English in ''Poetry Wales'', ''Waxwing'', ''The McNeese Review'', and ''Tin House''.The first book-length translation of his poetry appeared in 2019 under the title ''High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi'', translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian.Bijan Elahi, High Tide of the Eyes, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian (New York: The Operating System, Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts & Modern Translations series, 2019).

References

External links

Curated website about Bijan Elahi

Reading of poetry by Bijan Elahi, Hasan Alizadeh, and Kayvan Tahmasebian (Yale University, Online, 2019)'

Ganjavi, Mahdi. Bijan Elahi and the Rise of Sufi Experimental Poetry in Persian
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