Manouchehr Atashi (September 25, 1931 – November 20, 2005; Persian: منوچهر آتشی) was a Persian poet,[1] writer, and journalist of Kurdish descent.
He was born in 1931 in Dashtestan, Bushehr province. His poetry is the poetry of the revolting warrior of the humiliated southern tribesman. He takes his work seriously and although attached to his native birthplace his poems are universal scope. In his later works Atashi has relaxed his rhythm and has moved toward direct expression of emotion.
Works
Poetry Collections by Atashi:
Āhang-e digar (Another melody), Tehran, 1959
Āvāz-e ḵāk (The song of the earth), Tehran, 1967
Bar entehā-ye aḡāz (At the end of the beginning), Tehran, 1972
Bārān-e barg-e ḏowq: daftar-e ḡazalhā (The rain of joy: the book of ghazals), with ʿAbdol-Majid Zanguʾi, Tehran, 2001
Če talḵ ast in sib (How bitter is this apple), Tehran, 1999
Didār dar falaq (Meeting at dawn), Tehran, 1970
Ettefāq-e āḵar (The last event), Tehran, 2001
Gozina-ye ašʿār (Selected poems), Tehran, 1987
Gandom o gilās (The wheat and the cherry), Tehran, 1992
Ḡazal-e ḡazalhā-ye Sorenā (The ghazals of Sorena), Tehran, 2005
Ḥādeṯa dar bāmdād (The event at dawn), Tehran, 2001
Ḵalij o ḵazar (The Gulf and the Caspian), Tehran, 2002
Majmuʿa-ye ašʿār (Collected poems), Tehran, 2007
Rišahā-ye šab (The roots of the night), Tehran, 2005
Vaṣf-e gol-e suri (In praise of the red rose), Tehran, 1992
Zibā tar az šekl-e qadim-e jahān (More beautiful than the old shape of the world), Tehran, 1997
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
