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A Brief Note on Ahmad Shamlu's Life

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[h=3]A Brief Note on Ahmad Shamlu's Life[/h]
by
Iraj Bashiri
Copyright, Bashiri, 2000
Amhad Shamlu was born on December 12, 1925, to the family of an army officer in Tehran. Like many children who grow up in army families, he received his early education in various towns including Khash and Zahedan in the southeast and Mashhad in the northeast. By 1941, his high school still incomplete, he left Birjand for Tehran. He intended to attend the Tehran Technicum and learn German. Finishing high school was relegated to the future.
When, within a year, his father was transferred again, this time to Turkmen Sahra, Shamlu remained in Tehran to contribute to the war effort on the side of the Nazis. He was arrested by the Allied Armies in 1943 in Tehran and transferred to Rasht to serve a one-year prison term. When, at the end of his incarceration his father came to Azerbaijan to bring his son home, both father and son were arrested and placed before a firing squad. They were released, however, at the last moment, when new orders arrived. In 1945, Shamlu made one final attempt at completing his high school degree in Reza'iyeh but, again. he failed. This, however, for the last time.
Shamlu was a nationalist and a staunch supporter of the Musaddiq government. After the fall of Mosaddiq, he went into hiding for six months. Thereafter, he was arrested and incarcerated for over a year. All along, he continued a rigorous program of writing, translating, and composing poetry in the tradition of Nima Yushij.
Shamlu married three times. His first marriage (1947), even though it gave him four sons, did not last long. Neither did his second marriage (1957) that ended in divorce in 1963. His third wife (1964), however, proved to be very different. She became an incredibly instrumental figure in Shamlu's life and remained with him until his death in 1999. Her name, Ayda, appears in many of his later poems.
Due to political unrest and oppression in Iran, Ayda and Shamlu left Iran temporarily in 1977. After living in Princeton, New Jersey, for a while, they left for England and lived there until 1979. When, supposedly, the Islamic revolution opened a new chapter in Iranian history, Shamlu returned to Iran as the editor of Ketab-e Jom'e.
Shamlu has translated extensively from the works of French authors into Persian and his own works are translated into a number of major world languages. He also has written a number of plays for the stage, edited the works of major Iranian poets of the past, especially Hafiz, and contributed to the resolution of artistic and philosophical problems of modern societies. His six-volume Ketab-i Kucheh (Notes from the Alley) is a major contribution in understanding Iranian folklore.
Shamlu's poetry is extremely complex. Yet his imagery, which contributes immensely to the intensity of his poems, is simple. For base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafiz and Khayyam. For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete thus far unprecedented in Persian poetry. To those familiar with the works of Nima, for instance, there is not a whole lot new, but those who adore the works of the masters find much that is distressful.
It is still too early to pass judgment on either the pathfinder Nima Yushij or the settler Ahmad Shamlu. There is no doubt, however, that at the end both will be recognized as founders of modern Persian poetry (she'r-i now), each contributing to a different aspect of the nascent form. A list of Shamlu's major poetic works follows:

1948 Forgotten Melodies
1954 Steel and Emotion
1958 Fresh Air
1961 Garden of Mirrors
1965 Ayda in the Mirror
1966 Ayda, Tree, Dagger, and Memories
1967 Phoenix in the Rain
1970 Dust Elegies
1971 Blossoming in the Fog
1973 Ebrahim in the Fire
1977 Dagger in the Dish
1978 Tale of Mother Sea's Daughtersangelfire.com
 
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