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Exile and Dissonance: The Poetry of Naanaam (Hossein Fazeli)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
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Naanaam's Poems Represent One Of The Most Subversive, Eclectic, and marginal styles of contemporary Persian poetry written by exiled Iranians. His knowledge of contemporary world poetry as well as classical Persian poetry provides him with solid grounds for a peculiar style that is at once thoughtful and playful, serious and sarcastic, engaged and apathetic, violent and kind. He jolts his readers out of routine readings in a variety of ways: he uses English words in the middle of Persian writings; he parodies the well-known lines by the dominant figures of contemporary Persian poetry; he splendidly highlights the ironies and contradictions of everyday life experiences that we normally tend to take for granted; he antagonizes and subverts all that is dominant, be it poetic style, linguistic norm, Logic, or Truth.
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- Research Article
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- Iranian Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 3-4: Selections from the Literature of Iran, 1977-1997 , Summer Fall 1997 , pp. 379 - 383
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- Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1997
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1. Karbala is the name of a village in Iraq, where the third imam of the Shicas, Hossein, the embodiment of the Shica martyrdom, was slain along with 72 of his followers. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian religious leaders drew an analogy to this historical event to highlight the innocence of Iranians and the evil of Iraqi aggressors.
2. The former Iranian president and one of the leaders of the revolution. Some argue that he is a moderate and pragmatist clergyman.
3. The founder of modern Persian poetry (1898–1960).
4. The most prominent Persian poet alive and the forefather of a contemporary poetic style called political-symbolism that was dominant during the 1960s and 1970s.