Sohrab Sepehri

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Sohrab Sepehri (Persian: سهراب سپهری‎ translit: Suhrāb Sipihrī) (October 7, 1928 - April 21, 1980) was a popular modern Iranian poet and painter. He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province. He is frequently counted among the five famous modern Iranian poets who have practised "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme), the others being Nima Youshij Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad all of them now dead. He died in pars hospital in Tehran by blood cancer. His poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values. He loves nature and refers to it frequently.

[edit] Poetry

I’ve never seen two rival pines.

I’ve never seen a willow

Sell its shadow to the earth.

An oak happily offers

Its branch to the raven.

And wherever there is a leaf,

and in me, passion blossoms.

Translated by Neima Jahromi

[edit] Sohrab Sepehri's life calendar in brief :

Born in 1928 – Kashan – Iran

He hosted a painting exhibition - Tehran 1944

He published his first poetry book that followed by a few other books in the same year - 1951

He graduated from the fine arts university with B.A. degree in painting - Tehran – 1953

He translated some Japanese poetry into Persian and published them in a literary magazine called Sokhan – 1955

He traveled to Paris and attended the Paris Fine Arts School in lithography – 1957

He traveled to Tokyo to further his studies in lithography and wood carving – 1960

On the way back to Iran from Japan , he visited India and became familiar with the ideology of Buddhism – 1961

He published three books in poetry – 1960

He traveled to India again and visited several cities and provinces – 1964

He traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan 1964

He traveled to Europe and visited several countries such as Germany,England,France,Spain,the Netherlands,Italy and Austria – 1966

He published some long poems after he returned to Iran – 1966

He hosted a painting exhibition in Tehran 1967

He published another book in poetry 1967

He traveled to Greece and Egypt – 1974

He published his final book called ‘Hasht Ketab' (Eight Books), which was the collection of almost all of his published poems in one volume – 1976

He got blood cancer and traveled to England for treatment – 1978

Unfortunately, his attempt to defeat cancer brought him no result. He returned to Iran and died in Pars Hospital in Tehran on Monday April 21, 1980.