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Sohrab Sepehri

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Sohrab Sepehri

The poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri was born in 1928 in Kashan, Iran. He worked in several government agencies while pursuing his personal interests in poetry and painting. During these years he also traveled frequently to Europe and Africa. In 1964 he resigned his government position to focus on poetry and painting. He lived in the U.S. for one year, and subsequently spent about two years in Paris. He died in 1980.

Articles by Sohrab Sepehri

Illuminations
By Sohrab Sepehri
A cloudless sky,no breath of wind,I sit beside the courtyard pool.The slow stirrings of the goldfish,the radiance and I,the earth and water—Life clusters in a fresh washed bunch. My mother…
Translated from Persian by Jerome W. Clinton
Water
By Sohrab Sepehri
Let’s not muddy the water.Imagine that close by a doveis drinking from it,or in a distant grove a finchis washing its wings in it,or in some village it fills a storage jar. Let’s not…
Translated from Persian by Jerome W. Clinton
Address
By Sohrab Sepehri
In it there is love as wide as the blue wings of true friendship.
Translated from Persian by Jerome W. Clinton