House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Summer selections 2017 not just in terms of

not just in terms of colour

Herberto Helder

author of Archangel (Cape Poetry

and for art

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House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Summer selections 2017 not just in terms ofNotwithstanding 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