Saturday, November 28, 2009

NIMALOGY:index,contents and key concepts




I.NIMA:AFSANEH AND OTHER POEMS
1.AFSANEH
II.NIMA:AFSANEH AND OTHER POEMS
2.OTHER POEMS
III.NIMA YUSHIJ DAY,NOVEMBER 12
IV.NIMA:QUOTES
V.NIMA AND QUOTES OF OTHERS ON HIM
VI.NIMA:KEYWORDS AND KEYNOTES
VII.NIMA,THE MULTILINGUAL POET
VIII.NIMA:ROBAI(RUBAIYAT)
IX.NIMA,A STORY TELLER
X.NIMA:CHILDREN LITERATURE
XI.NIMA AND THE POEMS DEDICATED TO POET
XII.NIMAKHANI:READING NIMA IN TEHRAN AND IN THE U.S.
XIII.NIMA:MY HOUSE IS CLOUDY
With Ahmad Miralai
XIV.NIMA:
XV.NIMA OF MAZANDARAN=NIMAZANDARAN
XVI.NIMA'S YUSH
XVII.NIMA AND NOCTURNE OF ROCK GARDEN
XVIII.NIMA:LETTERS
XIX.NIMA AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES IN THE WORLD LITERATURE
XX.NIMA:"MY POETRY"
XXI.NIMA'S PUB
XXII.NIMA'S BOOK BORDERS
XXIII.NIMA AND "THE LAST BATTLE "OF SHAHRUDI
XXIV.NIMA ON POEMS OF MANUCHEHR SHEIBANI
XXV.NIMA:LETTER TO SHIN.PARTV
XXVI.NIMA ON BURNED POEMS
XXVII.READING NIMA IN BUSHEHR
XXVIII.NIMA:TWO INTERVIEWS
XXIX.NIMA:TWO INTRODUCTIONS
XXX.NIMA:LETTERS TO NEIGHBORS
XXXI.NIMA:JOURNAL
XXXII.NIMA AND AKHAVAN'S ATA VA LAGHA VA BEDATHA
XXXIII.NIMA OF HOGHUGHI
XXXIV.NIMA AND MOKHTARI'S EXAMPLE OF MAN
XXXV.NIMA:DOBEITI.BOOK OF RUJA
XXXVI.NIMA AND ESHKEVARI'S MESSENGER OF CLOUDY DAY
XXXVII.NIMA OF FALAKI
XXXVIII.NIMA:GLOSSARY
XXXIX.NIMA:ENCYCLOPEDIA
XL.NIMA:LOVE LETTERS
see also:mojbook.com/nimalogy
1.NIMA,THE POETS POET
2.NIMA,THE PERSONIFICATION OF WAVE
3.NIMA,50 YEARS AFTER SILENCE

to be completed through january 2010

NIMA: ENCYCLOPEDIA/40


nima encyclopedia
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NIMA: GLOSSARY/39


ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM nimayushij

NIMA:LOVE LETTERS/38


nima:tora man chashm dar raham
calligrphy by:esrafil shirchi
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NIMA OF FALAKI/37


NIMA AND ESHKEVARI'S MESSENGER OF CLOUDY DAYS/36


NIMA:RUJA,DOBEITIHA/35


MI ATA GAP
my one word
by:nima
on ruja
(dobeiti haye mazandarani)

NIMA & MOKHTARI'S EXAMPLE OF HUMAN BEING/34

محمد مختاری و 

img:moj

mohamad mokhtari's man in contemporary poetry,cover,with analitical concept on poetry of nima,shamlu,akhavan and forugh farokhzad
...


Thursday, November 26, 2009

NIMA OF HOGHUGHI/33


nima
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NIMA of AKHAVAN'S ATA VA LAGHA VA BEDATHA/32


NIMA:JOURNAL/31


nima's journal
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see also; nima: love letters
nimalogy#38

NIMA:LETTER TO NEIGHBOR/30


NIMA:TWO INTRODUCTIONS/29


NIMA:TWO INTERVIEWS/28

READING NIMA IN BUSHEHR/27




manuchehr atashi: images of clear days
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NIMA ON BURNED POEMS/26



NIMA: LETTER TO SHIN.PARTOV/25


NIMA ON POEMS OF MANUCHEHR SHEIBANI/24


Wednesday, November 25, 2009

NIMA AND "THE LAST BATTLE " OF SHAHRUDI/23

                                                                

nima yushij and esmail shahrudi,poet of "the last battle"آخرین نبرد ,publisher?,tehran 1330/1951,with an introduction by nima,now a classical in persian poetry and literary criticism.
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NIMALOGY 23
give me a hand
offer me a road
and rise with the sun!
I want to see the night
in your eyes
more miserable than ever.
-ESMAIL SHAHRUDI(b.DAMGHAN10 BAHMAN 1304/1925-d.NOV.25,1360/1981,TEHRAN):
SELECTED POEMS,BAMDAD 1348/1969
*NIMA'S INTRODUCTION TO THE LAST BATTLE,POEMS OF ESMAIL SHAHRUDI
*
With the arrival of Nima's students such as Esmail Shahrudi,Manuchehr Sheibani, and later on Ahmad Shamlu among others ,an individual revolt turned to collective revolt with social consequences.Like Nima both Shahrudi and Shamlu spend times in prison due to expressions of their thoughts and ideas.
Nima in his introduction to Shahrudi's first book of poetry,The Last Battle, writes:
Your collection of poetry reminds me of people.People thinks their view could be totally free and independent ,while it is not so .View of everyone , like life , is their truth.then it is related to others'.The good and evil that people search in others ideas,the others also seek in their thoughts...p351
If everything is truth,this is truth too,which is going to let us find ourselves to be in what condition.As music deals with man's feeling,Literature also is dealing with good and bad life...p352

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

LAST DAY OF FALL

FALL
BEHIND
THE WALL
WAITING
BY THE WINDOW
FOR WALL
TO FALL
ON THE ROAD.
NAKED WALL
OF NAKED FALL
WINDOWLESS
AND
THE ROAD.
London Town,Fall 2009

MOJ BOOK REVIEW-11

maftun amini,poet of nows of far,and farhad abedini,poet trace of blue,by amroud books
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*FARHAD ABEDINI:TRACE OF BLUE
SELECTED POEMS
AMROUD BOOKS,TEHRAN 1388/2009
spring does not pass
behind closed windows
and love
is fine without the curtain.
salute lady!
the world
is beautiful
with love
and without windows
-FARHAD ABEDINI:TRACE OF BLUE.TR.BY:FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI
FROM MIGRATION OF BIRDS(1352/1973) TO TRACE OF BLUE,THIS IS ABEDINI'S SEVENTH BOOK OF POETRY,OF THOSE RAIN OF MEMORIES IS IN FARSI AND ENGLISH.HE ALSO PUBLISHED A COLLECTION OF HIS INTERPRETATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETRY WITH THE TITLE:THE RAIN OF MEMORIES,WITH A SECOND VOLUME UNDER PRINT,AND ALSO A SELECTION OF HIS POETRY BOOKS UNDER THE TITLE OF:
REFLECTIONS OF POETRY WRITING,BY SALESS BOOK,1386/2007
A THIRD COLLECTON OF ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETS IS SET TO BE PUBLISHED BY THIS PERSIAN POET AND CRITIC.
*POONEH NEDAI:IN SILENCE
A SELECTION OF POEMS,TR.KAMBIZ PARSAI
AMROUD PUBLICATION
COVER BYSAED MESHKI
the candle knows well
the horror of the death of a desire
and the agony of loosing time:
moment after moment...
and the chilling shrink of the last flame!...
after that
all desire dies
the chandeliers may then be lit
in the hope of spreading light.
alas,but
chandeliers cannot brighten
the dark lifhts of the poets of silence
-POONEH NEDAI:DEATH OF A DESIRE
*POONEH NEDAI:A PLAIN FULL OF HORSES
even if you you are dream
or a moment to breathe
or a window opened only once
i appreciate it like certitude
for you could pour
my believing to the sea
-POONEH NEDAI: A PLAIN FULL OF HORSES,TR.FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI
SELECTED POEMS
AMROUD,TEHRAN 1388/2009
*MAFTUN AMINI:
NOWS OF DISTANT
SELECTED POEMS ..-1386/2007
AMROUD,TEHRAN 1388/2009
with grey heart
goes and returns
through the street that recently has known
with forgotten wounds
puts on and takes off
the shirt recently bought
with unaware hands
opens and closes
the window
facing spring
and does not know why with all these?...
-MAFTUN AMINI:NOWS OF DISTANT,TR.FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI.
WITH THIS BOOK,MAFTUN AMINI HAS PUBLISHED 12 BOOKS OF SELECTED POEMS.IT ALL STARTED WITH POEMS OF DARIACHEH/LAKE,1336/1067 ,
IN TABRIZ AND TEHRAN.HE IS ALSO PLANNING TO PUBLISH A COLLECTION OF HIS POEMS IN TURKI AZARI.

MOJ BOOK REVIEW-10

*MIRASS IRAN/PERSIAN HERITAGE
PERSIAN HERITAGE,VOL.14,NO.55,FALL 1388/2009 PUBLISHED ,WITH WORKS BY:
SHAHROKH AHKAMI.JAHANGIR SEDAGHATFAR,MAHROKH PURZEINAL,JOSEPH HUSEPIAN,MASSUD ATAI,...
MIRASS IRAN/PERSIAN HERITAGE IS A BILINGUAL MAGAZINE IN FARSI AND ENGLISH
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY PERSIAN HERITAGE , INC.
DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EDITOR:DR.SHAHROKH AHKAMI,M.D.
email: mirassiran@aol.com
http://www.persian-heritage.net/

*BARRESI KETAB/PERSIAN BOOK REVIEW
A QURTERLY ON ARTS AND LITERATURE
VOL.XIX,NO.59
FALL 1388/2009
SPECIAL SECTIONS:
HOMAYUN SANATI,BEHJAT SADR,PARVIZ MESHKATIAN,
AND WORKS BY:
EHSAN YARSHATER,IRAJ AFSHAR,JALIL DUSTKHAH,PARVIZ GHAZU SAID,HOSSEIN NUSHAZAR,AIDIN AGHDASHLU,NUREDIN ZARRINKELK,NUSHIN MOINI KERMANSHAHI,ABDOLAH KOSARI,SHADB VAJDI,MAHMUD KIANUSH(POEM IN FARSI/ENGLISH) AND MOHAMAD REZA SHAFII KADKANI...
EDITOR: MAJID ROSHANGAR.
mail@PersianBookReview
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

A*SH*N*A:BIJAN JALALI AND HIS CAT AND HIS POEMS...





زنی را می خواهم
که مانند درخت باشد
با برگهای سبزی که در باد می رقصند
آغوشش
چون شاخه های درخت باز باشد
و خنده اش
از تاریکی های زمین الهام گرفته
در سر انگشتهایش پراکنده شود
زنی می خواهم چون درخت
که هر طلوع و غروب
از افقی به افقی بگریزد
در حالی که از اسارت خود در خاک گریه می کند
.
.
bijan jalali and his cat and his poems...

LET'S ESCAPE WITH DEATH
TO CONSTELLATIONS
'CAUSE WE CAN NOT GO FAR
WITH LIFE
-BIJAN JALALI

BIJAN JALALI,PERSIAN POET
b.30 ABAN 1306/NOVEMBER 21,1927,TEHRAN
d.24 DAY 1378/JANUARY 14,1999,TEHRAN
BIJAN JALALI,THE PERSIAN POET, STUDIED PHYSICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES FOR A SHORT TIME IN TEHRAN AND PARIS, BUT THIS WAS POETRY WHO DRAGGED HIM OUT OF COLLEGE EDUCATIONS AND TOOK HIM THROUGH THE  BOOKS ,HE PUBLISHED DURING A FORTY YEAR SPAN:
DAYS
OUR HEART AND THE WORLD
COLOR OF WATERS
WATER AND SUN
from /BAZYE NUR/PLAY OF LIGHT,SELECTED AND PUBLISHED BY SHAPUR BONYAD
also:DAILIES
and :
ABOUT POETRY
Visits
Selected poems,Morvarid Publications
*
ALL THE DOORS
ARE CLOSED  TO YOU
YOU WHO LIKE SHADOWS
PASSING
ALL THE WALLS
*
HOW EACH BRANCH OF TREE
CHOSES
ITS DIRECTION
THAT IS NOT
LIKE OTHERS?
*
Let us draw a flower
with words
A flower might break down
Let us say
A word of flower
A flower
might come
*
It is for light
that I write
If it was dark
All over
At all time
I would never write.
*
Unending sobbing
Words
And unending smiles .
Who
They always
Drag
With them
-BIJAN JALALI

POSTED ON BIJAN JALALI'S bd
last modified 01142011

Thursday, November 19, 2009

BRAVO MUTOMBO!


take two hospitals
and call dr.mutombo in the morning!
ENGLISH/FRENCH
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO ,GLOBAL AMBASSADOR OF NBA FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS.
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO ,b.1966 ,KINSHASA , CONGO,
A GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE,
PLAYED 18 YEARS IN NBA FOR TEAMS LIKE
DENVER,ATLANTA,NEWYORK,MIAMI,HOUSTON
AND RETIRED 2009.
HE IS 8 TIME ALL STAR AND 3 TIMES NBA TEAM MEMBER.
MUTOMBO OPENED A HOSPITAL IN CONGO,1997 AND A SECOND ONE IN 2007.
HE IS ANNOUNCED NBA GLOBAL AMBASSADOR
FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS
BECAUSE BEING
"ONE OF THE MOST HUMANITARIAN ATHLETE."
ACCORDING TO COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN
*
*
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO NAIT A KINSHASA , REPUBLIC DEMOCRATIQUE DE CONGO,1966,UN ANCIEN JOUEUR DE LA NBA.
IL A AIDE 20 MILLIONS DE DOLLARS POUR LA CONSTUCTION DE L'HOPITAL MUTOMBO
A KINSHASA CONGO
ET A CONSTRUIT LE SECOND HOPITAL.
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO EST L'AMBASSADEUR GLOBALE DE LA NBA
AUX AFFAIRES HUMANITAIRE.
BRAVO MUTOMBO!
FELICITATION DIKEMBE!
NOUS SOMME FIERS DE VOUS.

MOJ BOOK REVIEW-9,NOVEMBER 2009


haleh esfandiari and my prison,my home
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*HALEH ESFANDIARI: MY PRISON , MY HOME
ONE WOMAN'S STORY OF CAPTIVITY IN IRAN
ECCO,230 PP.,$25.99
"THE SCARS OF PRISON NEVER REALLY HEAL"
THAT IS HOW HALLEH ESFANDIARI BRINGS HER MEMOIR OF IMPRISONMENT IN IRAN TO HER BOOK READERS OF MY PRISON,MY HOME.ESFANDIARI WHO TRAVELLED TO IRAN IN 2006,TO VISIT HER AILING MOTHER,SPENT EIGHT MONTH IN PRISON,BUT WITH VIGOROUS EXERCISES ENDURED PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY,TO BE RELEASD AND RETURN TO U.S.,TO TELL HER TALE.
THIS BOOK IS ALSO GIVING INFORMATIONS ABOUT HISTORY OF PRESENT DAY IRAN,AS BACKGROUND OF WRITER'S ACCOUNT OF BEING A POLITICAL PRISONER.
HALEH ESFANDIARI ,THE WRITER OF MY PRISON,MY HOME IS DIRECTOR OF MIDDLE EAST DEPARTMENT OF WOODROW WILSON CENTER OF WASHINGTON,D.C.

RAISE YOUR FLAG!


Dr.Ramin Pour Andarjani,M.D.,(1362-1388)
RAISE YOUR FLAG
WHEN POPPY OF THE WIND
SINGS WITH ROAR OF RIVER.
THE MEN OF "NO"
BRINGING NIGHTS OF LIGHT
TO THE CITY
TILL FRESH AIR
OPENS WINDOWS OF BELIEF
THEY HAVE THEIR LOVE FOR THE EARTH
LATELY FUTILE .
THE MEN OF "NO"
GOING THEIR WAY
WOUNDED
TO GOLGOTHA
AND BREATHE
A NEW SOUL
IN CITY'S BODY
TO BRING ABOUT
DANCES OF FIRE AND BLOOD.
from:SILENTLY,poems of 1355-1359,Moj Book,Tehran 1360/1981
Also appeared in:Contemporary Mazandaran Poetry,Ed;A.Emadi,Farhangkadeh Sari 1371/1992
NOTE:I wrote this poem in streets of Tehran ,where people were raising flags in 1357
for a popular movement and revolution.
The English version is being published for
DR.RAMIN POUR ANDARJANI,M.D.
another victim in
Revolution Green.
F.S.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S WEEK 2009


image by:susie soleimani
theeyebehindthelens.com
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S WEEK
IS CELEBRATED
NOVEMBER 18-NOVEMBER 25
see also:trisskybook.com/internationalchildren'sweek

Saturday, November 14, 2009

NIMA'S BOOK BORDERS /22

NIMA ON BORDERS OF BOOKS THAT IS
NIMA'S BOOK BORDERS WRITTEN BY US ALL, under a pen name...
FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI


ONE MAY FIND THESE NOTES
ON THE BORDERS OF NIMA'S BOOKS,
WHOSE NAME AND NOTES ARE LEFT
ON COVERS AND BORDERS OF ANY
CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN BOOKS
of Poetry,Art & Literature .
*
*
Nima in his years of reflections and thoughts reached movements and jumps, and this was his first journey to revolutionary poetry which happened after his Tale of Pale Face,Cold Blood;O Night and specially Afsaneh of Nima
...
In the second journey ,Nima reached the climax,starting from Ghoghnus the Phoenix and Ghorab the Raven ,written during 20 years of reflection and now published in journal of musighi/music.This happened during Reza Shah's oppressive rule but not after his fall,as mentioned by some critics.Then Nima went on to O People,which is considered in my Nima book as Harmony of Intelligence and Interpretation.This third chapter of Nima's journey passes through Maneli,Naghus,Makh Ula , and reaches I Have My Eyes On Your Way.
The fourth Nimai journey is a reviewing period and then regress to poems in pieces as ode and ghazals,if these are a true selections by editor of his collected poems.Nima then experiences nostalgia in his poetry and finds himself in a ply structure ,with dialogue like Afsaneh/Legend,Ghoghnus,Who Is Laughing Who Is Crying? and Morgh Amin.
By this route one may start from Afsaneh,with a flash back to Ghesseh Rang Parideh, and O Night ,and continue through collected poems,arranged by Sirus Tahbaz and later by Sheragim Yushig arrangedthe dates they have been written.
Now we remember that Nima is an emigre poet,in a mix of human and nature,at times human-nature.Hut and cottage and ox and his howls.And then sky.sea.shore,woods and forest,night and dawn reaching morning.
In this objective ambience,the language of poet is calling rira,ding dang,duduk duk duka,chok o chok and...and he believes poetry of poet has to be a sample of himself,like examples of migrations ,as hearth and its remainings. So poetry should be a remaining,and reader could find those signs and symbols to find poet and his positions and trajectory.The poet should be an extract of his time,and in case of Nima this extract,these signs and symbol can be traced easily in poems like O People,and his nature,and his solitude,returning to the poem Afsaneh, in a circle
MAY BE THAT IS WHY NIMA CHANGED THE PLACES OF PIECES AND COLUMNS IN SENTENCES TO FIND SOMEONE WHO TALKS THE SAME LANGUAGE WITH HIM,AND NOT THE CONVENTIONAL AND TRADITIONAL ONE.
TWO OF THESE PEOPLE WERE MOHAMAD MOIN AND JALAL ALAHMAD WHO WERE CHOSEN BY NIMA.MOIN WAS A SCHOLAR NOT SO FAMILIAR OR INVOLVED WITH NEW MOVEMENTS IN PERSIAN LITERATURE,ALTHOUGH GRACEFUL TO TAKE POSITION AND FIND A REPLACEMENT FOR HIMSELF,THE LATTER,JALAL ALAHMAD WAS MORE FAMILIAR WITH NIMA'S WORKS THROUGH INTERPRETATIONS OF THE POET,AS A NEIGHBOR AND FAMILY FRIEND.
MOIN WROTE:
SEVENTY YEARS AGO A CHILD WAS BORN IN YUSH-MAZANDARAN-WHO LATERS HAPPENED TO BE NIMA OF NIMAVAR(==NAMAVAR/FAMOUS.) NIMA IN HIS LITERARY LIFE EXPERIENCED SHORT STORY WRITING,PLAYS AND LITERARY DISCOURSES,BUT WHAT MADE HIM FAMOUS IS HIS POETRY WRITINGS.
IN POETRY,NIMA SPENT TIME IN DIFFERENT STEPS;writing poems in traditional forms and shapes and contains.writing poetry in traditional formsBUT WITH NEW CONTAINS,AND WRITING INNOVATIVE POETRY.WHAT SHOWS NIMA;S PERSONALITY OUT OF THESE THREE TYPES, IS THE LATTER.
AFTER NIMA'S DEATH-BY HIS WILL-EDITING AND PUBLISHING OF NIMA'S WORK STARTED BY MY EDITING WITH SUPPORT OF HIS WIFE AND SUN,AND THE FIRST ISSUE OF HIS WORKS WITH TITLE OF "AFSANEH AND ROBAIYAT" PUBLISHED BY KEIHAN CO..NOW THE SECOND PART AS "MAKH ULA"WITH COOPEATION OF SIRUS TAHBAZ AND ASSISTANCE OF SHERAGIM-NIMA'S SON-IS BEING PUBLISHEED BY SHAMS PUBLISHING HOUSE.WE HOPE TO SUCEED PUBLISHING OTHER NIMA'S WORK,SOON
BAHMAN 1344/1965
-MOHAMAD MOIN
...
AL AHMAD A WRITER OF SHORT STORIES AND A POLITICAL ACTIVIST WROTE:
...A YEAR AFTER HIS DEATH-1339-"AFSANEH AND ROBAIYAT PUBLISHED IN ONE VOLUME.IN KEIHAN PUBLISHING HOUSE.BY SUPERVISION OF MY PROFESSOR MOHAMAD MOIN AND DARIUSH AND JANATI AND THAT"OTHER ONE".AFSANEH WAS PREPARED BY JANATI( AND THIS WAS ITS THIRD PRINTING)AND ROBAIYAT WAS EDITED BY TWO OF US.AND MOIN WAS ONLY SUPERVISING.AND THEN EACH OF US WERE DISAPOINTED FOR A REASON.ONE BECAUSE OF LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY BY THIS FRIEND IN A COLORFUL MAGAZINE AND THE OTHER ONE FOR OTHER POSITION HE HELD AND THE THIRD ONE FOR"GHAEMIAN BAZY"[PLAYING GHAEMIAN WHO TRIED TO HOLD COPYRIGHT FOR HEDAYAT'S WORKS]-AND MOIN THAT "LOGHATNAMEH"JOB WAS ENOUGH TO DISABLE HIM.
SO ALIEH KHANOM STARTED LOOKING AROUND.AND HOW ANXIOUS SHE WAS!ONE DAY WITH AZAD AND SAEDI AND TAHBAZ,WE GOT TOGETHER TO ASSUME RESPOSIBILITY FOR PUBLISHING THE REST OF "OLD MAN'S"WORKS.BUT WE WERE ALL BUSY WITH A THOUSAND THINGS.FINALLY TAHBAZ VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE OVER.AND WE DECIDED THAT ALIEH KHANOMLEAVES ALL THE WORKS WITH TAHBAZ AND HELP HIM WITH SHERAGIM TO KEEP THE IN ORDER,AND THAT "OTHER ONE"LEAVES TAHBAZ' HAND IN MOIN'S HAND,BECAUSE IF WE DID NOT HAVE ASPIRATION TO DO THESE,THIS ONE HAS.AND WE DID ALL THESE.AND TAHBAZ STARTED.
FIRST HE PUBLISHED A POCKET SIZE BOOK "NIMA YUSHIJ SELECTED POEMS" IN DAY 1342/JAN 1963,WITH AN "OLD MAN" PORTRAIT BY HANIBAL ALKHAS ON THE COVER.THEN HE PUBLISHED "MAKH ULA."ESFAND 1344/FEB 1965.BY SHMS PUBLICATIONS OF TABRIZ.WITH BAHMAN MOHASSESS DRAWING ON THE COVER.UP TO HERE ALIEH KHANOM AND MOIN WERE PRESENT.THEN ALIEH KHANOM FOLLOWED THE "OLD MAN"AND COULD NOT TOLERATE THIS WORLD TO SEE ALL "OLD MAN'S"WORKS ARE PUBLISHED.FROM NOW ON ALL THE WORKS REMAINED ONLY IN TAHBAZ RESPONSIBILITY WHO PUBLISHED "MY POETRY" IN JAVANEH BOOKS=FALL 1345/1966-WITH A PICTURE FROM HAJI NURI,INSPIRED BY O PEOPLE OF "OLD MAN"THEN "BELL"-BY MORVARID 1346/1967-WITH THE PICTURE OF A NIMA'S MASK BY THE ARTIST ZIAPUR.AND I KNOW TAHBAZ IS CONTINUING HIS WORKS...
20 BAMAN 1346/FEB 1967
-JALAL ALAHMAD
...
INTERESTINGLY BOTH OF THESE GAVE UP THEIR POSITIONS IN NIMA'S WILL AND CHOSE SIRUS TAHABAZ TO EDIT NIMA'S WORKS THROUGH SCRAPPED PAPERS AND ON THE BACK OF CIGARETTE BOXES.AND THIS MAN TOOK OVER AND HE DID IT.SOMETHING NIMA'S FAMILY FAILED TO DO,TO PUBLISH NIMA'S SCATTERED POEMS,NOTES AND LETTERS.LATELY I HAVE SEEN NIMA'S SON,SHERAGIM,A CINEMATOGRAPHER HAS SHOWN INTEREST TO RE -EDIT AND RE-PUBLISH NIMA'S OEUVRES THROUGH TAHBAZ ENDEAVER ,WHICH IS APPRECIABLE IF DONE THROUGH HARD WORKS AND RESEARCH .
*
*
IT WAS EARLY 1340'S/1960'S,AND SIRUS TAHBAZ,MY LITERARY FRIEND AND NOW MY CLASSMATE IN TEHRAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL(TUMS),WAS SITTING NEXT TO ME IN PATHOLOGY CLASS(GROSS PATHOLOGY),BUT MORE ANXIOUS AND RESTLESSTHAN USUAL.WHEN CLASS WAS DIMISSED.TAHBAZ , IN THAT OLD AMPHITHEATER TURNED TO ME AND SAID :GOOD BYE!
GOOD BYE,I SAID LIKE USUAL AND ADDED:I'LL SEE YOU TOMORROW.
-WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?HE SAID.I SAID GOOD BYE FOREVER.I AM GOING BACK TO KEYHAN NEWSPAPER AND TAKING OVER TRANSCRIBING NIMA'S WORKS AND PUBLISHING THEM.
AND THAT WAS IT.SIRUS TAHABAZ LEFT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AFTER FIVE YEARS AND RETURNED TO JOURNALISM AND A FUUL TIME EDITOR OF NIMA'S OEUVRES.
AND I LIKE TO ANNOUNCE IN HERE THAT IF THERE WAS NO SIRUS TAHBAZ,MOST PROBABLY THERE WAS NOT NIMA YUSHIJ'S COLLECTED POEMS AND OTHER WORKS.
MOHAMAD ZIA HASHTRUDI HELPED SOME.
ABOLGHASEM JANNATI ATAI DID HIS SHARE.
MOIN ONLY WROTE SOMETHING LIKE 15 LINES.
ALAHMAD TRIED TOO,BUT THIS WAS WAY OVER HIS MENTALITY AND VIEWS.AND THE OTHER HELPED,LIKE MANUCHEHR ATASHI OR SHAMLU,HOGHUGHI,DASTGHEIB AND LATER YOUNGER GENERATION,WHO ALWAYS ARE YOUNGER GENERATION AND ANXIOUS AND ENERGETICS.AND THIS IS GORGEOUS.BUT BELIEVE ME,
LADIES AND GENTELMEN!
IF THERE WAS NOT SIRUS TAHBAZ
THERE WAS NOT NIMA YUSHIJ'S WORK IN OUR HANDS.AND I INSISTED ON SAYING THIS TO GOLESTAN,AKHAVAN,KHOI,HAKKAK,ROYAI AND YOUNGER GENERATION,
THAT ALL WE HAVE OF NIMA
IS THROUGH SIRUS TAHBAZ TIME AND EFFORTS.
NOT A POET,
NOT A CRITIC
BUT A LOVER
WHO LOVED NIMA AND NIMAI POETRY
AND CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETRY
NOT LESS THAN ANY ONE OF US.
ALTHOUGH WE MAY DISSAGREE WITH HIS READINGS,TRANSCRIPTIONS AND OR HIS SELECTIONS,ESPECIALLY AFTER 1357 ,WHICH NEEDS TO GO THROUGH FURTHER CRITICAL REVIEW AND RESEARCHE.
AND SIRUS TAHBAZ IN A PREFACE TO NIMA'S POETRY BOOK SAID:
THIS IS A COMPLETE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIMA YUSHIJ...,"RUJA" AND NIMA'S TABARI POETRY ARE TRANSLATED BY ALI PASH ESFANDIARI WITH COLLABORATION OF ESFANDIAR ESFANDIARI...
IN THE PAST,I HAVE PUBLISHED A PART OF NIMA'S WORK,AS FOLLOWS:
MAKH ULA,29 POEMS,DONIA 1344/1965
MY POETRY,21 POEMS,JAVANEH 1345/1966
NAGHUS,12 POEMS,MORVARID 1345/1966
SHAHR SHAB VA SHAHR SOBH,11 POEMS,MORVARID 1346/1967
GHALAM ANDAZ,21 POEMS,DONIA 1349/1970
FARIADHAYE DIGAR VA ANKABUT RANG,14POEMS,JAVANEH 1350/1971
AB DAR KHABGAH MURCHEGAN,540 ROBAI,AMIR KABIR 1351,1972
MANELI VA KHANEH SARIVILY,2 LONG POEMS,AMIR KABIR 1352/1973
HEKAYAT VA KHANEVADEHYE SARBAZ,AMIR KABIR 1353/1974
AFSANEH,PAINTINGS BY BAHMAN DADKHAH,KANUN PARVARESH FEKRI KUDAKAN VA NOJAVANAN 1357/1978.
ALSO IN 1364/1985 I PUBLISHED COLLECTED WORKS OF NIMA YUSHIJ,FIRST BOOK,POEMS...BUT DUE TO PUBLISHERS HASTE MANY TYPO  WAS NOTICED IN THERE WITH OMISSIONS.
...THE FINAL DRAFT OF GHALEH SAGHRIM HAS BEEN LOST IN 1338/1959,BUT THIS POEM [IN THIS BOOK]IS EDITED BY PREFINAL DRAFT.
(EXCERPT)
13 DAY 1369/JAN 3,1990
see also:nima's pub,nimalogy/21
NIMA had a tendency to write his journal on daily happenings and his insights.All these notes now are collected and  printed by Sheragim Yushij under the title : NIMA'S JOURNAL