Collected Poems of Mohammad Ali Bahmani

Mohammad Ali Bahmani is one of the prominent and capable contemporary poets who began writing poetry during his childhood and teenage years. At that time, “Fereydoon Moshiri” was responsible for a poetry and literature column titled “Seven Strings of the Lyre” in the magazine “Roshangari.” Bahmani’s acquaintance with Moshiri, which occurred in a printing house, led to the publication of one of his poems in “Roshangari.” Since then, Bahmani’s poems have been sporadically published in various Iranian journals and magazines. However, in this work, titled “Collected Poems of Mohammad Ali Bahmani,” his collections of poetry are gathered in a single book and offered to readers. This collection begins with his “Garden of Tulips” and continues with “During Consecutive Sneezes,” “In Weightlessness,” “Numbered Moments,” “Recorded Concerns,” “Give Me Respite,” “Another Season,” and “Sometimes I Miss Myself.” This is followed by his long poems, including “Father,” “Drunk,” “Lamp,” “Silence,” “Akhoon Has Gone,” and “Seven Generations of Thirst.” Further, collections such as “The Poet is Worth Listening To,” “This House Has Non-Flammable Words,” six poems titled “Sar-Kangi One to Six,” “Why an Umbrella? Imagination Doesn’t Get Wet,” “I Am Still Alive and Think in Sonnets” with twenty-eight poems, and “Free Breathing” with fifty-nine poems are all included in “Collected Poems of Mohammad Ali Bahmani.” This book, with over eight hundred pages of the poet’s work, encapsulates more than four decades of Mohammad Ali Bahmani’s contributions to poetry and sonnets, presented in one volume for the audience.