Night: Poetry from the Contemporary Persian Canon (two volumes): Volume 1

Dual-language edition, Farsi and English.
A translation by Iman Tavassoly and Paul Cronin.

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami — author of three books of original verse — released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895–1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). This material is presented to English-speaking readers for the first time, in eight volumes: Nima’s Water, Hafez’s Wine, Saadi’s Tears and Rumi’s Fire. In 2015, Kiarostami published two further books, the dual anthology entitled Night, his selections from a variety of classical and contemporary poets.

Here for a brochure about the Kiarostami poetry project.

Abbas Kiarostami (1940—2016) was one of Iran’s leading filmmakers, who also published several books of photographs and poetry.