*RUMI DAY , AUGUST 28TH/ 6 SHAHRIVARروزرومی

from Z Gallery, by Zohreh Khaleghi

rumi,divan shams

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RUMI DAY IS 6 SHAHRIVAR / AUG 28

2007 WAS THE YEAR OF RUMI,MOLANA JALAEDDIN MOLAVI
b.6 Shahrivar 586,Balkh,Iran-d.26 azar 652 khorshidi,Ghonieh/Konia
Aug 28 1207-Dec 17,1273 A.D.
606 - 672 H.Q.

cover,rumi's poetry by ahmad shamlu

MOLANA JALEDDIN MOLAVI RUMI,ONE OF THE MAJOR PERSIAN POETS,WROTE GHAZALS OR LYRIC POEMS FOR HIS MYSTIC MENTOR IN DIVAN SHAMS.HE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR MASNAVI OR COUPLETS ,IN THAT HE IS INSPIRED MORE BY Persian MYSTICISM AND ITS LITERATURE.

AS A THEOLOGICAL TEACHER,RUMI IN NOV 30,1244,MET SHAMS IN TABRIZ AND AND HIS WHOlE LIFE CHANGED WITH THAT MEETING.AFTER THEY LIVED TOGETHER FOR A WHILE,RUMI STARTED WRITING HIS GHAZALS AT AGE 40 FOR SHAMS.LATER SHAMS WAS KILLED AND RUMI IMMIGRATED TO GHONEH,ANATOLY AND CONTINUED TO WRITE ALMOST 30 000 LINES OF MASNAVI ,IN THE FORM OF COUPLETS,AND SOME ROBAI OR QUATRAINS AS WELL.RUMI ALSO WAS ATTACHED TO CHALABI SPIRITUALLY AND HIS MASNAVI COULD BE THE RESULT OF THIS EXPERINCE.RUMI DIED IN GHONIEH OR KONYA AND MOLAVIEH ORDER OR TARIGHAT MOLAVIEH WAS FORMED THERE AFTER HIS DEATH.

*

THIS IS A PIECE AND TRANSLATIONS OF SOME ROBAIS,I PUBLISHED IN NEVESHTA INTERATIONAL,N0 5,NOV.-DEC. 2007:

*WALK RUMI WALK*

IN THE YEAR 2007 WE ARE CELEBRATING 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF RUMI,THE IRANIAN PROLIFIC AND BEST SELLING POET WHO HAPPENED TO BE AN IMMIGRANT AND WANDERER OF THE WORLD,AS WELL.HERE YOU MAY FIND A PART OF OUR CONTRIBUTION TO SAL E RUMI,1386

1

WALK ALBEIT THE ROAD IS ENDLESS

YOU ARE WORTHLESS IF YOU LOOK ONLY THROUGH DISTANCE

GET TO THE ROAD THROUGH YOUR LIVING HEART

NOT JUST LIVING BODY THAT COULD BE NON HUMAN'S

2

WALK TO LIVING WELL

CIRCLE LIKE A WHEEL AS THE MOON CIRCLES

THERE IS YOR SOUL CIRCLING,FRIEND

AND WHAT CIRCLES COMES FROM CIRCLES

3

I WALKED THROUGH YOUR DESERT OF LOVE

TO FIND UNION WITH YOU

BUT IN EVERY WALK

A FALLEN CORP AND A SKULL

4

TONIGHT THAT I AM COMPETING WITH MOON AND JUPITER

I AM WALKING WITH MY SWEETHEARTS

DRUNKEN WITH GORGEOUS WINE

IT IS ALL I WANTED TONIGHT

*

On the day I die don't weep
Death has nothing to do with going away
The sun sets and the moon sets
But they are not gone
-RUMI

*AMIR FALLAH,THE IRANIAN AMERICAN ARTIST

I saw AMIR fALLAH,the Iranian American artist on his way back from his art exhibition in Dubai and going to Los Angeles.From the day I wrote a note about his works in Iranian of Washington about 12 years ago to this point on the stretch,Amir came a long way and established himself as an internationally acclaimed artist and publisher .
He recieved BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA from UCLA .Amir's exhibitions in museums and galleries around United States and internationally in The Third Line and The Sharja Biennal made him a well known artist .In the brochure of this xibit you read:
Amir H. Fallah's work range from painting,drawing,sculpture,all evoking a fresh ,brightly colored aesthetic that addresses a nexus of idiosyncratic topics... He is also the publisher of Beautiful/Decay an internationlly distributed cotemporary arts magazine and Creative Director of Something in the Universe, a design agency/creative thinkthank.
Amir's works appears in other collections including DIFFERENT SAMES,new perspectives in contemporary Iranian art ,edited by Amirsadeghi. Here you find Amir Fallh's paitings and collage with influences of surrealism to motifs of persian classical art.
In this book you may also see works by other young Iranian Artists such as :
NEGAR AHKAMI,KAMBIZ ARAM,SHIRIN NESHAT ,SHIDEH TAMI and...with a foreword on Iran's modern painting from ZIAPOUR ,KAZEMI,SOHRAB SEPEHRI,YEKTAEI to SAGGAKHANEH MOVEMENT of TABATABAI,PILARAM,GHANDRIZ,OVISSI,CHARLES HOSSEIN ZENDERUDI , to MANSOUREH HOOSSEINI,FARIDEH LASHAI,FARAH OSSOULI , post revolution art and arts of Iranian in diaspora which could be discussed in more details as a newer entity...
Back to where we start,you may visit Amir Fallah ,his works and magazine in:
amirhfallah.com
beautifuldecay.com

-FS

*SIMIN OF SAVUSHUN سیمین دانشور

simin daneshvar

a major persian writer

modified march 2012

modified 3.16.2012

SIMIN DANESHVAR,a celebrated contemporary Iranian writer
 b. Shiraz 28 april ,1921/8 ordibehesht 1300, a year before EBRAHIM GOLESTAN,another great short story and fiction writer who was born in the same city of Shiraz,the birth place of HAFEZ ,SA'ADI and in our time ,of TAVALLALI,BONYAD,BARMAKI, BONYAD
ABDOLALI AND MINA DASTGHEIB,KHAEFI,OJI,SHAHRIAR MANDANI POUR,REZA PARHIZKAR,DR.REZA MOHARRERI,M.D.,HASHEM JAVID among others.
d.8 March 2012/18 Esfand 1390,Tehran,Iran
Simin Daneshvar recieved a Ph.D in Persian literature from University of Tehran and taught there ,as well as in Stanford University.Her collection of short stories is the first by an Iranian woman writer.Savashun also was the first novel ever written and published by a woman writer in Iran.
Savashun is a folk tradition,in southern part of Iran and Fars province that conjures hope.The novel is story of Persian family during World War II in Shiraz,Fars,Iran.Zari the main character sees the society and her family life'While struggling with her desire for  traditionalfamily life and her need for an individual identity"
Simin Daneshvar in 1327/1948 married to Jalal al ahmad,one of the major Iranian writers.She was the first president of Iranian Writers Association

 simin & jalal

jalal al ahmad books

SIMIN DANESHVAR has published oeuvres in short stories and novels such as :
آتش خاموش ،۱۳۲۷
شهری چون بهشت  ۱۳۴۰
سووشون ۱۳۴۸
به کی سلام کنم ۱۳۵۹
غرب جلال ۱۳۶۰ رواق
جزیره سرگردانی ۱۳۷۶ خوارزمی
پرنده های مهاجر ۱۳۷۶
ساربان سرگردانی ۱۳۸۰ خوارزمی
کوه سر گردان ،خوارزمی )گم شد )!!
SILENT FIRE,
HUMAN COMEDY,
ISLAND OF VAGRANCY,
SUNNY HONEYMOON,
TO WHOM I SAY HELLO,
ASK MIGRANT BIRDS ,
SUTRA and OTHER STORIES,
DANESHVAR'S PLAYHOUSE
PERSIAN REQUIEM
 and translations from Chekhov,Bernard Shaw,Hawthorn,Alain Payton ...of these the novel  SAVUSHUN(MOURNERS OF SIAVOSH) is a hallmark.
TO COW'S MILK THEY ACCUSTOMED ME
BUT THE CALF DIED-IT WAS NOT TO BE
I WAS A YOUNG BABE WHEN MY MOTHER EXPIRED
AND FOR MY CARE A WET NURSE WAS HIRED
MY LUCK FAILED AGAIN,AND SO I CRIED
WHEN I LEARNED MY WET NURSE TOO HAD DIED
from SAVUSHUN of SIMIN DANESHVAR,*
tr.M R GHANOONPARVAR,MAGE,WASHINGTON,D C 1990,P.145
letters of al ahmad to daneshvar,and daneshvar to al ahmad نامه های سیمین به جلال
نامه های جلال به سیمین
چهل طوطی،افسانه های هندی به ترجمه سیمین دانشور و جلال ال احمد  forty parots
*Savushun was the first novel ever written by an iranian women writer.USA Today wrote:
Her compassionate vision of traditional folkways surviving amid the threats of modernity,including allied occupation,give her work a resonant universality...
And Washington Post added:
For western readers the novel not only offers an example of contemporary Iranian fiction,it also provides a rare glimpse of the inner workings of an Iranian family...The novel is written from a woman's point of view,by an Iranian woman writer whose life covers one of the most turbulent periods of Iran's history.
خبر مرگ دانشور در ۳۰ تیر ۱۳۸۶ دروغ بود.عکس زیر در خانه اش به سال ۲۰۰۷ گرفته شده است

simin daneshvar in her house,2007

-FS

MOJ BOOK REVIEW-1,APRIL 2009

NEVESHTA INTERNATIONAL#10 ,IRANIAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF ART & LITERATURE ,PUBLISHED BY NOWRUZ1388/2009 WITH WRITINGS AND POEMS BY:

HOSSEIN ATASH PARVAR*PARVIZ ESLAMPOUR*ARASH JOUDAKI*YADOLLAH ROYAI*
KAZEM REZA*FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI*ALIMORAD FADAEINIA*EBRAHIM GOLESTAN*
MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN MODEL*MANOCHEHR YEKTAEI*NIMA YUSHIJ &...

DIRECTOR OF NEVESHTA:HOSSEIN VAHEDIPOUR
CHIEF EDITOR :MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN MODEL
EDITOR ,ARABIC SECTION:SOHEYLA PARASTEGARI
EDITOR, ENGLISH SECTION: FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI
EDITOR,FRENCH SECTION:ARASH JOUDAKI
EDITOR,STORY SECTION:HOSSEIN ATASH PARVAR
VISIT : neveshta.org
emal: neveshta@gmail.com

*WITTGY IN HELL

I WENT TO SEE
LUDWIG JOSEF JOHANN
aka WITTGENSTEIN
IN HELL
TO SEE IF HE AND PHILOSOPHY
ARE DOING WELL.
WITTGY SHOOK HIS BIG HEAD
AFTER I IMPOSED
MY HEAVY DUTY QUESTION
AND WITHOUT LOOKING AT ME SAID:
AS LONG AS THEY TALK ABOUT
THE END OF PHILOSOPHY AND SUBJECTS
THAT IS A GOOD SIGN
PHILOSOPHY IS ALIVE AND WELL.
NOW YOU CAN GO BACK TO YOUR HELL
AND LET ALL BLIND-MEN-BY-CHOICE
SO CALLED PSYCHO-DETRACTORS
KNOW OF THIS
AND KEEP WHINING.
* written on b-d of Wittgy in Vienna,Va (not the other one in Austria!)

FROM MATTAPONI RIVER

0n this NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY,
APRIL 26 TH,
I read from my:PUEBLO POETRY BOOK,
a poem called:FROM MATTAPONI RIVER

*FROM MATTAPONI RIVER

MAN ARRIVED
WITH EMPTY PADDLES
AND THE RED WING FLUTTERED
ON THE WIND WITH HIM.
WE CIRCLED ON A CIRCLE
ON KHAYYAM POTTERY AND WINE
AND THE WORLD WAS EMPTY.
ON COUGHING FLAMES
FIREPLACE WAS BURNING
IN THE RED MEMORY OF DREAM CATCHERS
AND TOTEM CHEST,
BUT DUST
WAS NOT DANCING.
GOING TO RIVER WAS IN VAIN
IN VAIN WAS ARRIVING
FROM RIVER
AND SKY WAS ONLY
AN EMPTY WINDOW
FROM MATTAPONI RIVR

BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME
THE RED MAN SANG...

-FS

MAGIC MARQUEZ

dali,s melting time

image by: moj book

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AUG 6,2009
*MAGIC MARQUEZ
THE MAGIC REALIST WRITER,GABRIEL JOSE DE LA CONCORDIA GARCIA MARQUEZ,ALSO KNOWN AS GABO ,DOES NOT FEEL WELL AND DECIDED TO DEPRIVE THE WORLD OF HIS NEW WORKS.

gabo saying farewell

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GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ b.MAR 6,1927 IN ARACATACA,MAGDALENA,COLOMBIA,WHERE HE STARTED HIS LITERARY CARRIER AS A JOURNALIST.HE WON 1982 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE,ESPECIALLY FOR HIS OEUVRE: CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD/ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.
MAGIC MARQUEZ ,NOW SUFFERING FROM LYMPHATIC CANCER,SAID GOODBYE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.HE ALSO SAID:
I WOULD SLEEP LESS TO DREAM MORE

I DO NOT WANT TO WAIT FOR FURTHER NEWS ABOUT HIM.

I SHALL WRITE ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRITER IN THIS CORNER,INCLUDING EXCERPT OF MY ESSAY ON HIS BOOK,FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1359/1980, AND TRY TO HAVE FUN WITH THE COLUMBIAN MAGICIAN WHO ONCE SHOOK THE WHOLE WORLD WITH HIS NARRATIVES.

BUT LET ME TELL YOU.NOW HE IS SHAKEN HIMSELF BECAUSE OF A KIND OF CENSURESHIP  STAGED AGAINST HIS LATEST BOOK,THE NOVELLA:

MEMORIAS DE MIS PUTAS TRISTES/MEMORIES OF MY MELACHOLY WHORES,PUBLISHED 2004.A LOLITAESQUE SEQUEL TO HIS ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE,AND LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA.

THE DECISION OF MAKING"MEMORIES...",A MOVIE,WAS PUT ON HOLD IN MEXICO,WHERE MARQUEZ RESIDING IN THE PAST TWO DECADES,"FOR THE ACTS THAT COULD BE CONSTITUTED AS THE CRIME OF CONDONING CHILD PROSTITUTION"ACCORDING TO A HUMAN RIGHT GROUP.

MORE TO COME...


*O AUTHORS!
EARLY BLAZY LABORS
LATE PEG LEG
BELATED IN THE RUIN
ON THE RUN
O AUTHORS
OF THE SOMETIMES
DOLL
ARTS
AS MARQUEZ CALLED YOU
-F.S.