A*SH*N*A:MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI محمدحقوقی

mohammad hoghughi,   محمد حقوقی 

poet and critic

A*SH*N*A

محمد حقوقی : لا ک پشت ها 

به انتخاب شاعر 

لاک پشت 

شن ها را 

به گودال 

فرو می ریخت 

و زمان همچنان بر ایستگاه می گذشت 

(سال ٦٢-در انزلی -بیش از این دو سطر را نتونستم نوشت )

مادرم 

در گور 

قرار 

می گرفت 

و زمان هم چنان بی ایستگاه می گذشت 

(سال ٦٣-در اصفهان-بیش از این دو سطر را نتونستم نوشت )

آمفی تاتر دیگر 

از زیر خاک 

بیرون 

آمده بود 

و زمان هم چنان بی ایستگاه می گذشت 

(سال ٦٤ -در سوییس - بیش از این دو سطر را نتونستم نوشت )

گذاران سال دو هزار از قتل سزار 

- "بروتوس ! تو،هم!"-

و آنگاه که همراهم گفت :

ءچه گفتی"

گفتم:

هیچ-

و رو به ساحل راه افتادم 

آن جا که به دنبال هزاران لک پشت نوزاد 

که به سوی دریا می دویدند 

کلمات بر کاغذ 

سرازیر 

می شدند 

" دیدن آمفی تاتر در سوییس که تازه کشف شده بود و از زیر خاک در آمده بود در سال ٦٤ مرا به یاد سال ٦٣ می انداخت وقتی که مادرم را در گور می گذاشتند و گور مادر مرا به یاد خاطره یی در انزلی می آورد وقتی که لاک پشتی دشت زمین را می کند لاک پوشت ، ماده ای که در ماسه ها تخم می گذشت - همان که پس از تماشای آمفی تاتر در سوییس در خیال من یکی پس از دیگری از تخم در می آیند و به سوی دریا می دوند .لاک پشت ها با کلمات تازه شعر من ،همان شهری که در سال ٦٢ فقط دو سطر آن را بیشتر نتونستم بنویسم و در سال ٦٣ هم دو ستر و در سال ٦٤ هم -لاک پشت و خاک کنایه از تولد -مادر و خاک کنایه از مرگ و آمفی تاتر در خاک مانده و از خاک بر آمده کنایه از مرگ و تولد هر دو با هم ، و روابطی که در این میان به وجود می آید ...

توضیحات شاعر در جلسات اهل قلم تهران به کوشش فرهاد عابدینی ،١٣٦٧

UPDATE : 05.01.2012
see:PAPELI HOGHUGHI,SHER E SHAB
POETS AND POETRY NEVER DIE.
MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI IS STILL HERE.
HE HAS NOT GONE YET FOREVER.
HE WILL BE BACK.HE STAYS WITH US.
IN POETRY AND PROSE,MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI IS HERE.
I ASSURE YOU .I KNOW IT. I KNOW HIM.
ONCE HE SAID:
ALL REMAIN A CHILD
WHOSE LOOK
ARE LEFT BEHIND
IF THOSE TRAVELLERS FAR AND AWAY
WITH TREMBLING FINGERS TOWARDS BIRTH
IN THE LAST MEMORY OF CONFUSION OF BIRTH
HOW SAD...

MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI, POET AND CRITIC  محمد حقوقی 

b 13 Ordibehesht 1316,Isfahan,Iran/3 May 1937
d 8 Tir 1388 / 29 June 2009
AS A YOUNG POET,HE JOINED OTHER WRITERS OF ESFEHAN SUCH AS AHMAD AND HUSHANG GOLSHIRI,AHMAD MIRALAI,ABOLHASAN NAJAFI,MAJID NAFICY , JALIL DUSTKHAH,Dr Bahram Sadeghi, AND OTHERS IN JONG ESFEHAN/ESFEHAN ANTHOLOGY AND IN LATE 1350'S MOVED TO TEHRAN TO ATTEND TEHRAN SUPERIOR SCHOOL.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH,IN THOSE YEARS HE WAS VERY MUCH INTO SPORT AND SOCCER GAMES AND LIKE HIS BROTHER HOSSEIN IN MEDICAL SCHOOL , MADE IT TO SCHOOL TEAM FOR COLLEGE COMPETITION.
HOGHUGHI WHO WAS MANUCHEHR ATASHI'S ROOMMATE AND STUDYING AT THE SAME SCHOOL WITH POETS SUCH AS ASGHAR VAGHEDI AND ESMAIL KHOI AMONG OTHERS,STARTED WRITING AND PUBLISHING GHAZALS AND GRADUALLY TURNED TO MODERN POETRY AND FOLLOWING IT IN MODERATION.
HIS DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON POEMS EVOLVED INTO BOOKLENGHT CRITICAL ESSAYS ON SOME PROMINENT PERSIAN POETS SUCH AS NIMA,FORUGH,SHAMLU,SEPEHRI ,AKHAVAN,AND THEIR POETRY.
MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI ,WHEN RETURNED FROM HIS LONG TRIP TO SWITZERLAND FOR HEART SURGERY IN 1364/1985, WAS NOT THE SAME ENERGETIC GUY I USED TO KNOW IN SOCCER FIELDS ,OR WITH HANGING SHOES ON HIS SHOULDERS AFTER THE GAMES.HE GREW GRAY BEARD AND LOOKED LIKE FREUD,AS BARAHANI ALWAYS MOCKED HIM WITH LAUGHTERS,AND ATTENDED MOSTLY SMALL OR LARGER GATHERINGS OF POETRY RECITALS ONLY IN SILENCE AND THOUGHTS.BUT HE WAS STILL STRIVING HARD TO FOLLOW CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETRY VERY CLOSELY AND UPDATE HIS ' SHER NOW AZ AGHAZ TA EMRUZ 'TO PREPARE IT FOR SECOND EDITION.
HOGHUGHI STARTED PUBLISHING HIS BOOKS OF POETRY IN ESFEHAN AND CONTINUED THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS , SUPPLEMENTING WITH LITERARY CRICISM AND FARSI BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS...

IN ESFEHAN:
ANGLES AND ORBITS,1969
WINTERY SEASONS,1969
IN TEHRAN:
EASTERNERS,1972
INEVITABLE ESCAPES,1978
WITH NIGHT,WITH WOUND,WITH WOLF,1978
A THOUSAND WING COCK,1989
NIGHT,PERMANENT,NIGHT,1991
MODERN POETRY,FROM BEGINNING TO TODAY,MODERN PERSIAN POETRY OF 46 MAJOR PERSIAN POETS FROM 1300/1921 TO 1370/1991,2ND ED;RAVAYAT,TEHRAN 1371/1992
OF THE MORNING OF SILVER AND ASH
FROM THE HEART TO DELTA
THE LONG HALLWAYS OF EVENING
THE BASKETS IN 15 BOOKS,INCLUDING LAMENT OF ROBAB,FOR POET'S MOTHER,AND MORE(UNPUBLISHED)
POEMS OF BERN
SURFACES OF POETRY IN LINES OF PROSE(UNPUBLISHED)...
HOGHUGHI ,AS A STRUCTURALIST CRITIC OF POETRY WHO WROTE ESSAYS AND BOOKLENGHT CRITICISMS ON WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY POETS,BELIEVED THAT :
A REAL POET ,UNTIL THE MOMENT OF FINISHING THE LAST LINE OF POEM,WILL NOT KNOW HOW AND WHAT IS WRITTEN THERE.
HOGHUGHI ONLY RECOGNIZED ALL THIS CREATIVE ACTIVITIES THROUGH A "SPECIAL CIRCLE OF STRUCTURE FOR THAT SPECIAL POEM"(from INTERVIEW WITH ME'YAR)
SOME OF HOGHUGHI'S WORKS IN THE FIELD OF POETRY CRITICISM ARE AS FOLLOWS:
POETRY AND POETS
FACES OF PERSIAN POETS,1351/1972
POETRY OF OUR TIME ON:
AHMAD SHAMLU
FORUGH FARROKHZAD
SOHRAB SEPEHRI
NIMA YUSHIJ
MEHDI AKHAVAN SALESS...
THE LIMIT IS THIS,GHATREH,TEHRAN 1381/2002,A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS.
ALSO:
COASTAL POEMS,A BOOK OF THE LAST SELECTED POEMS BY MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI IS STILL UNDER SURVEILANCE BY OFFICIALS UP TO PRESENT TIME ,
TO OBTAIN PERMIT FOR PUBLICATION.

THIS IS A LINE OUT OF HIS OWN POEMS in مرثیه رباب THAT MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI,THE POET OF WINTERY SEASONS, LIKED VERY MUCH,OUT OF HIS POEMS ,AND ALWAYS QUOTED OR RECITED IT:
THE EVER NIGHT OF YOUR BONY REEDS
ON THE EVER LIPS OF DEATH
شب همیشه ی نی های استخوانی تو بر لب همیشه ی مرگ
/SHAB E HAMISHEH YE NEY HAYE OSTEKHANI YE TO BAR LAB E HAMISHEH YE MARG/

AND NOW,THESE ARE THE LINES I RECITED FOR THE POET OF DARABAD AND DEDICATED TO HIM IN MY BOOK:"GREEN AND WHITE AND RED / SABZ O SEPID O SORKH "(MOJ BOOK 1378/1999)AND NOW I AM GOING TO RECITE THEM TIME AND AGAIN,AS 'IN INVASION TOO THE GARDEAN STARTS ANEW..."

HE IS TIRED OF LOVING
BEHIND THE WALLS OF
FEVER AND COUGH
ON THE OTHER SIDE
SOMEONE IS PLAYING
FOR HIS HEART
SOMEONE IS GIVING HIS SOUL
AS RANSOME

IN THE LANDSCAPE OF DUST
IS STARING
THE VALLEY OF DARABAD
(TEHRAN 1360/1981.see:qoqnoos.com for persion version)

see:MOJ BOOK MAJOR PERSIAN POETS - 1/HOGHUGHI*
IN :MOJBOOK.COM

ALSO SEE:A-Z MAJOR PERSIAN POETS
IN : MOJBOOK.COM
(COMING SOON)
+ M.MOTAGHEDI:REMEMBRANCE OF MOHAMMAD HOGHUGHI,
IN :MAHMAG.ORG/FARSI
TO FOLLOW BY HOGHUGHI'S POEM FOR FORUGH FARROKHZAD,PRESENTED HERE BY MY TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH.

THE SUNS OF SISTER'S MIRROR
-IN MEMORIAM:FORUGH

THE NIGHT SLEEPS IN SILENCE
THE NIGHT IN ALL ANGLES
WHERE IS THE DISCOVERER
O LADY SPEAK UP
O LADY LOOK
ON A STAGE CONNECTING MIRRORS
TO WATERS OF COPULATIVE

O LADY LOOK
0 LADY SPEAK UP
THE RARITY RUNNING BROOKS
THE SUNS OF SISTER'S MIRROR
WHEN SUDDENLY AWAKEN
OF MORNING SLEEP
THERE ARE NEVER LINES
OF DISTANCE

O LADY LOOK
O LADY SPEAK UP!
(BY:M.HOGHUGHI,TR.BY:F.SOLEIMANI)

*AMONG 1000 POETS OF 70 YEARS ,46 MAJOR PERSIAN POETS ARE SELECTED
IN HOGHUGHI'S BOOK,
-WHO ARE 4.6 PER CENT OF THEM-
AND THESE POETS ARE REPRESNTED BY THEIR BIOGRAPHIES AND OUEVRES
EVOLVING THROUGH SEVEN DECADES OF
MODERN PERSIAN POETRY,BETWEEN 1300 TO 1370.
BY NOW 28 OF THE SELECTED POETS ARE GONE and passed away ,
WHICH MAKES IT TO 60 PER CENT OF THEM,
SO THERE ARE 18 POETS IN HOGHUGHI'S LIST WHO ARE STILL LIVING,
AND THE WORLD SEEMS TO BE A BIG VOID WITHOUT THEM ALL.
BUT
POETS AND POETRY NEVER DIE ...
AND THE ROAD WILL CONTINUE WITH YOUNGER PACES AND VOICE.
I am planning to modify and expand Hoghughi's list as IRANIAN POETS OF THE CENTURY/         شاعران قرن ایران  ١٣٠٠ - ١٤٠٠
-F.S.
see also: postcard from mohammad hoghughi