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Mehrdad Arefani

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Letter

The letter is in the sorting office
A letter which, if delivered,
will gather together all the neighbours
and the tables will fill with cups
The letter is currently hidden
The letter is currently bed-bound
in a hospital of which
no one knows the name

© Translation: 2012, Abol Froushan

LETTER

© 2010, Mehrdad Arefani
From: From Tree to Tree
Publisher: Dena - Belgium, Brussels

Mehrdad Arefani

Mehrdad Arefani

(Iran (Islamic Republic of), 1963)

Geographic references play a large role in Arefani’s poetry, owing to his nomadic life. A political viewpoint is always to be found in his work, but his poems are not rhetorical or sloganising. In his work, the political becomes poetical.

Mehrdad Arefani was born in July 1963 in Shahsavar, a Caspian sea port in Northern Iran. At the age of 15 he was swept into politics by the Iranian Revoluti...

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Letter

The letter is in the sorting office
A letter which, if delivered,
will gather together all the neighbours
and the tables will fill with cups
The letter is currently hidden
The letter is currently bed-bound
in a hospital of which
no one knows the name

© 2012, Abol Froushan
From: From Tree to Tree

Letter

The letter is in the sorting office
A letter which, if delivered,
will gather together all the neighbours
and the tables will fill with cups
The letter is currently hidden
The letter is currently bed-bound
in a hospital of which
no one knows the name

© 2012, Abol Froushan

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