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Published Works

Books ( in Persian ):

• Jān-bākhtegān be buy-e fardā’i now [‘ Fallen, aspiring to a better tomorrow ’] , long poem ( Germany: Noghteh Publications, 2003)
• Ghobār-rubi [‘ Dusting ’] , selected poems, Vol. II (Stockholm: Baran Publications, 1993)
• Ta’ammoli dar rāh [‘ Contemplation on the Way ’] , selected poems, Vol. I (Teheran: Seda Publications, 1993)
• Now’i az naqd bar now’i az she’r [‘ A Sort of Criticism of a Sort of Poetry ’] , on Persian poetry in the 1970s (Saarbrücken: Nawid Publications, 1987)
• Sorudhā-ye setāyesh va Ash’ār-e Digar [‘ Songs of Praise and Other Poems ’] , Persian verse-translation of Bertolt Brecht’s poems (Paris: Khavaran Publications, 1985)
• Zan setāreh-y sukhteh-y donbāleh-dār [‘ From the Burnt-Out Comet ’] , collection of poems (Saarbrücken: Hava-ye Tazeh / Nawid Publications, 1984)
• She’r-e jonbesh- e novin [‘ Poetry of the New Movement ’] , an anthology of poems (Teheran: Toos Publications, 1979)
• Dar-āmadi bar ensān-shenāsi [ a translation of Human Beginnings by Olivia Vlahos ] , (Teheran: Sepehr Publications, 1978) 

Chapters in Books ( in Persian ):  

• Two articles (“The Reader’s Participation in the Process of Creating a Poem,” 1998, and “Debating a Second Adversary,” 1995) reprinted as chapters in Jaan-e Del-e She’r. Critical Reviews of Esmail Khoi’s Poetry, selected & edited by Samsum Kashfi ( Atlanta, GA: Esmail Khoi Foundation, 2002).
• “On Metres” [“Vazn-e She‘r”, an interview with Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles in Spring 1990], in Sedā-ye heyrat-e bidār – Goft-o-gu-hā-ye Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles , ed. Mortezā Kākhi (Tehran: Zemestān, 1992)

Selected Articles

( in English ):

• A review of Kamran Talattof’s The Politics of Writing in Iran. A History of Modern Persian Literature ( Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000) published in The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin (Vol. 19/1, Winter/Spring 2003).
• A review of Dr. Alice C Hunsberger’s Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (London: 2000) published in the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (Vol. 35, #2,Winter 2001, pp. 220-221).
• “Brecht’s Poems in Persian: The First Attempt at a Verse Translation,” in: Communications [Journal of the International Brecht Society], Vol. 22, No. 1, May 1993, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
• “Brecht’s Poems in Persian Translation,” in: Poetry Periodical, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1995, Frankfurt, Germany.
• “The Time Wasted for Salman Rushdie,” in: The Toronto South Asian Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1993, Toronto, Canada.

( in German ):

• “Wir dürfen Ssohrab Ssepehri nicht zuhören - Die Stellung Ssepehris in der heutigen persischen Lyrik,” in: Poetry Periodical, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1996, Frankfurt, Germany.
• “Man kann nicht alle gefährdeten Autoren verstecken,” interview, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, August 5 th 1994, Frankfurt, Germany.
• “Traum,” in: Die Brücke, No. 56, September-October 1990/5.

( in Persian ):

• A review of Firoozeh Papan-Matin’s The Love Poems of Ahmad Shamlu ( Bethesda, Maryland: Ibex Publishers, 2005); to be published in: Iranshenasi – A Journal of Iranian Studies .
• “The Story of the Other One” [“Revāyat-e ān digari”] in: Ārash No. 97, November 2006.
• “Persian Language and Iranian Nationality” [“Zabān-e Fārsi va Melliyyat-e Irāni”], in: Shahrvand, No. 1086 ( Toronto: August 11, 2006)
• “A difficult step towards simplicity in Simin Behbahāni’s ghazal” [“Gāmi doshvār be-suy-e sādegi dar ghazal-e Simin Behbahāni”] in: Iran Nameh 1-2, 2006.
• “Personality vs. Individuality in Political Literature” [“Shakhsiyyat va fardiyyat dar adabiyyāt-e siyāsi-e iran”] published in Ārash No. 92-93, September 2005.
• A review of Houshang Golshiri’s Black Parrot, Green Crow – A Collection of Short Fiction, ed. Heshmat Moayyad ( Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2003) in: Iranshenasi – A Journal of Iranian Studies XVII.1. Spring 2005.
• A review of Shahram Ahadi’s Verbergänzungen und zusammengesetzte Verben im Persischen (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2001) in: Iranshenasi – A Journal of Iranian Studies XV.2. Summer 2003.
• “A difficult step towards a simpler ghazal – on Simin Behbahāni’s poetry” [“Gāmi doshvār be-suy-e sādegi dar ghazal”] published in Ārash No. 84, June 2003.
• “The story of a song” [“Towzih darbāre-ye yek sorud”], ‘Epilogue’ to the anthology [no ed.]: Sorud va Tarāneh ( Hamburg: Sonboleh Publications, August 2001).
• “Shāmlu Won” [“Shāmlu barandeh shod”] [on Ahmad Shamlu’s poetry], in: Ārash, No. 75-76 ( Pontoise, France: February 2001)
• “Death of Ernst Jandl, the Poet Who Broke the Norms” [“Marg-e Ernst Jandl, shā’er-e hanjār-shekani-hā”], in: Sepid ār No. 15, June 16, 2000.
• “On Hushang Golshiri’s Short Story ‘What have We Been Through, Bārbad?’” [“Negāhi be dāstāni kutāh az Hushang Golshiri”], in: Sepid ār No. 14, June 9, 2000.
• “Hushang Golshiri and the Anxiety about Dying Early” [“Hushang Golshiri va daghdagheh-ye javān-margi”], in: Sepid ār No. 14, June 9, 2000.
• “Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles” [on the poet Mehdi Akhāvan-Sāles], in: Sepid ār No. 12, May 26, 2000.
• “Sensing Language and Lingual sensitiveness” [“Hess-e zabān va hassāsiyat-e zabāni,” on language in poetry], in: Shahrvand, No. 431 (Toronto: October 22, 1999)
• “Playing a Foreign [=False] Note” [“Va nam-namak khārej mi-zanam,” on Iranian exile poetry], in: Shahrvand, No. 406 (Toronto: April 30, 1999)
• “A Group Photograph” [“Aks-e dasteh-jam’ee,” on the poet/scholar Mohammad Mokhtāri], in: Shahrvand, No. 388 (Toronto: December 25, 1998)
• “In the Slaughterhouse of Dialogue” [“Dar qatl-gāh-e goft-o-shenid,” on the poet/scholar Mohammad Mokhtāri], in: Shahrvand, No. 387 (Toronto: December 18, 1998)
• “Hamid Mosaddeq: The Poet’s Share of the General Recognition” [obituary on the poet Hamid Mosaddeq], in: Shahrvand, No. 386 (Toronto: December 11, 1998)
• “The Reader’s Participation in the Process of Creating a Poem” [“Sherkat dādan-e mokhātab dar farāyand-e sorāyesh], in: …den!, No. 6&7 (Malmö: December 1998)
• “On the Association of Iranian Writers,” in: Ārash, No. 65 (Cedex, France: December-January 1997-98)
• “Chopping the Smile off the Lips of Poetry” [on publication of poetry in Iran], in: Didār, No. 4-6 (Darmstadt: September-October 1997)
• “Some Thoughts on Nimā’s Style” [“Ta’ammoli bar shiveh-ye kār-e Nimā”, on Nimā Yushij’s technique in poetry], in: …den!, No. 4 (Malmö: December 1996)
• “Of the Consequences of Hearing Well” [a response to another article], in: Mihan, No. 16 (Paris: June 1996)
• “Two Approaches: Three Remarks” [“Do negāh, seh eshāreh”, on postmodernism in poetry], in: Poetry Periodical, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Frankfurt: April 1996)
• “Debating a Second Adversary” [“Jedāl bā modda’i-ye sāni”, on the poetry of Esmā’il Kho’i], in: Poetry Periodical, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Frankfurt: October 1995)
• “On Shāmlu’s translatins of Margot Bickel” [“Kāsh man ham yek Margot Bickel budam”], in: Poetry Periodical, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Frankfurt: October 1995)
• “Shāmlu’s Lasting Poetry and the disease of Shāmluism” [“She’r-e māndgār-e Shāmlu va bimāri-ye Shāmlu-zadgi”], in: Poetry Periodical, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Frankfurt: October 1995)
• “On New Year [Now-Ruz] away from Iran,” in: Ādineh, No. 99-100 (Tehran: March 1995)
• “A Poet Contemporary to Himself?” [“Shā’eri mo’āser-e khod?,” obituary on the poet Kamāl Raf’at Safāee], in: Āghāzi Now, No. 26 (Cedex, France: Summer 1994)
• “On Publishing in Iran,” in: Ārash, No. 39-40 (Lognes, France: June-July 1994)
• “Again on Spelling” [“Bāz ham dar gostareh-ye emlā’,” questioning innovations practiced in Persian spelling], in: Fākhteh, No. 5-6 (Amsterdam: Spring 1994)
• “Interview with Saeed Yousef” [“Goft-o-gu bā Saeed Yousef”], in: Sepidār No. 10-11, October 1993.
• “On Poetry” (interviewed by Sohrāb Māzandarāni), in: Kutāh Pirāmun-e She’r va Goft-o-gu bā Shā’erān, No. 3 (Lund: Roya, January 1993)
• “On Sohrab Sepehri’s Poetry” [“Jāygāh-e Sepehri dar she’r-e emruz-e fārsi”], in: Sepidār No. 5-6, December 1992.
• “Short Story as a Literary Genre” [“Dāstān-e kutāh beh onvān-e yek guneh-ye adabi”], in: Afsāne, No. 2 (Uppsala: Autumn 1991)
• “On Wolfgang Borchert, with a translation of his short story ‘Das Brot’,” in: Çesmandāz, No. 8 (Paris: Winter 1991)
• “Debating with Oneself around Artistic Commitment” [“Mofāveza bā khish dar havāli-ye eltezām-e honari”], in: Çesmandāz, No. 4 (Paris: Spring 1988)
• “ A Sort of Criticism of a Sort of Poetry ” [a chapter of the book bearing the same title], in: Kārnāmeh-ye Farhang va Honar-e Irān, No. 5-6 (Paris: June-July 1985)
• “A Note on the Issues of Poe sy and Sloganeerism,” in: Zamān-e Now (Paris: No. 9, 1985)
• “Progressive Literature” [“Adabiyyāt-e bālandeh,” in: Jahān No. 24, October 1984.
• “On Vladimir Mayakovsky,” in: Zamān-e Now (Tehran: I/1, 1981)
• “Review of a translation of V. Mayakovsky’s poems,” in: Zamān-e Now (Tehran: I/1, 1981)

Poems:

From 1964 numerous poems published in different issues of Persian journals and weeklies in Iran and later in Europe and North America, among others in the following: Setāre-je Ghotb, Hirmand, Khorāsan, Āftāb-e Scharq, Musik-e Iran, Dschahān-e Now, Ārasch, Ketāb-e Dschom’eh, Schahrvand, Nāmeh-je Kānun-e Nevisandegān-e Irān dar Tab’id, Daftar-hā-je Kānun-e Nevisandegān-e Irān dar Tab’id, Rāh-e Kārgar, Ruzegār-e Now, Dschahān, Fasli dar Gol-e Sorkh, Ro’jā, Āftāb, Ketāb-e Noghteh, Khat, Poetry Periodical; also satirical verse in Āhangar und Asghar Āghā.

Journalism:

• 2000: Co-editor of the weekly Sepidār in Toronto.
• Since 1995 Editor in Chief of the multi-lingual (mainly Persian) Poetry Periodical [ Gāhnāmeh-ye vizheh-ye she’r], Frankfurt/M, Germany.
• 1981: Co-editor of the journal Zamān-e Now in Tehran, banned after the first issue appeared.
• Since 1966 regular cooperation with local newspapers, later with different periodicals (both as editor and by contributing poems, articles, and translations), among others with: Setārh-ye Qotb [Torbat-Haydarieh], Khorāsān [Mashhad], Āftāb-e Sharq [Mashhad], Hirmand [Mashhad], Hirmand – Nāmeh-ye Ahl-e Khorāsān [Mashhad], Musik-e Irān [Tehran], Jahān-e Now [Tehran], Kār [Tehran], Zamān-e Now [Tehran].

Lectures/Interviews/Readings:

Since 1983 ca. 200 lectures, readings and interviews in 48 European and North American cities.