House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Summer selections 2017 and for art

and for art

These ‘books’ gather poems in different metres and concentrate on specific themes

Herberto Helder

Here again are the intelligent

monsters and manta rays

House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Summer selections 2017 and for artNotwithstanding his spare output, with only two volumes of poetry Diary of House Arrest (Ruznama ye tabid, 2003) and Blue Bicycle (Ducharkha yi b, 2015) to his name, Iranian poet Hasan Alizadeh has left a poetic signature on modern Persian poetry, distinguished by lyricism and colloquialism. In Alizadehs poems, a labyrinthine memory, structured by the intricate architecture of old Iranian bazaars and mosques, continually revises itself in spontaneous