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Bijan Elahi and the Rise of Sufi Experimental Poetry in Persian – Mahdi Ganjavi

July 7th marks the birthday of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), a modernist, experimental poet who has posthumously acquired a position in Persian modern poetry that only a few canonical poets, like Nima Youshij (1897-1960), Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000), and Forough Farakhozad (1934-1967), have previously achieved. Unlike these poets, Elahi chose to live...