Hoshang irani
Hoshang Irani (1304 – ۱۴ Shahrivar 1352) was a leading contemporary poet, translator, and journalist, one of the pioneers of Persian surreal poetry and one of the first poets of prose poetry in Iran. other; Jalil Ziapour, Hassan Shirvani and Gholamhossein Gharib, with less than 40 poems and several articles, was able to be one of the pioneers of revolution in Iranian poetry and had a significant impact on the poetry of Sohrab Sepehari, Yadullah Royai, Ahmadreza Ahmadi and the new wave poetry.
Hoshang Irani was the most reckless and innovative poet of the late 1320s and the first years of the 1330s and the first herald of surrealism in Iranian poetry.
Collection of poetry books
Intense violet on gray: some poems, Tehran (publisher of the author), Shahrivar 1330
Gray: A Few More Poems, Tehran
(publisher of the author), Khordad 1331
A flame caught the curtain and Iblis came in: And again some poems, Tehran: (author’s publisher), November 1331
Now I’m thinking of you, I’m thinking of you, Tehran: [Bina], December 1334
Hoshang Irani is one of the most brilliant failed faces of Persian poetry. He was the first prose poet whose poetry was not influenced by Nima. Hoshang Irani along with Shamsuddin Tander-Kia and later Bijan Jalali were poets who started to innovate without knowing about Nima Yoshij’s work.
Apart from its qualitative value, his poetry had a different look at the inherent nature of this art. In his poetry, there is no mention of Nima’s naturalism, nor the idealism and politicization of many other poets. In terms of aesthetics, his aesthetics does not rely on the duality of good and bad, black and white, etc.; And this is the special feature of his poetry in the concept, which is rarely seen in the works of others.
Bringing poetry closer to prose, and removing the distinction between these two literary genres, was one of the main tricks in Hoshang’s Iranian poetry, which turned into a very natural and ordinary event a few decades later, but in the years 1330 and 1331, it was considered a bold literary revolution. It would be..
Resources
Gallery: From the collection of designs of the book “Chand Desan”, Tehran: [Bina], Ardibehesht 1331
The book “Purple Scream” is a selection of poems by Hoshang Irani, Mohammad Azram (2014)
A collection of poems and thoughts of Hoshang Irani
The book “From the bright blue…) 1330
Three speeches about Hoshang Irani, Mohammad Azram and Mehdi Atefi Rad, 20 December 2016
