Iraj Mirza was it?
Farshid Ketabchi
>described several different sexual acts and specifically LavAt (sodomy)?
>I remember bits and pieces from one of his poems in which he describes
>how he raped a young man in the middle of the night!!
>Am I thinking of the right person?
>Soheila
Yes, that's him. He has another poem (XXX-rated!) about having
sex with an apparently moslem (hejaab-daar) woman whom he spots
standing by a door in some koocheh-pas-koocheh.
But he also has a lot of great and decent poems (not to say that
the above-mentioned one is a bad one; just not suited for
all audiences.)
One poem that I remember in particular is about mother-love
(not the one we learned in school.) It is about a guy whose
lover asks him to kill his mother and bring her heart for
her. Being so in love, he goes to his mother, stabs her to
death and cuts her heart out. As he walks through the door
with the heart, he trips over the door edge, hurts his foot,
falls down, and drops the heart. The heart all of a suddent
speaks: "Oh, my son, you hurt your toe!?"
I don't have the poem with me but this is more or less the
story. I guess the element of violence is present in this
poem as well. Now that I think about it, it is also about
being in love and how crazy an aashegh can get. So what's
new!? :-)
I had Iraj Mirza's complete work as a deevaan back home.
I asked my parents to send it to me but I was told that
the post office would refuse to mail it.
Farshid Ketabchi
keta...@cs.umn.edu
Computer Science Department
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Sassan Behzadi
>>Wasn't he the one who had a number of poems in which he graphically
>>described several different sexual acts and specifically LavAt (sodomy)?
>>
>Yes, that's him. He has another poem (XXX-rated!) about having
>sex with an apparently moslem (hejaab-daar) woman whom he spots
>standing by a door in some koocheh-pas-koocheh.
>
It's a shame that Iraj Mirza is only known for some of his "more-
explicit" poems. (I personally wouldn't call them X-rated, I think
NC-17 - no children under 17 - describes them better :-) )
In his poems, Iraj Mirza frequently critisized the common superstitions
(khorAfAt) and religious practices of the day (HejAb, Seeneh-zani, etc).
His poem about "The Women with the HejAb" is a good exmple. In this
story, he explains (in some graphic deatails) how he meets and makes
love to a women, who - although freely engages in sex with him -
nevertheless holds on tightly to her "chAdor" throughout the whole
act, in order to satisfy her notion of Islamic modesty.
But lets not forget many of his wonderful (dare I say, G-rated)
poems, many of which we studied in school. Who among you doesn't
know this one: "Goyand marA cho zAd mAdar ....", and the one about
the Fox and the Crow (The fox fools the crow into singing so he can
steal the cheese that the crow is holding in his beak), or the story
of the Mouse and the Lion, (the lion lets the mouse go - instead of
killing him - only to be rescued by the mouse later-on when he is caught
in a hunter's trap.) and of course the ever popular: "DAsht abaas
goli khan pessari...".
In his poems Iraj Mirza encouraged the youth of Iran to study and
to learn, to seek "true" morality instead of a fake religious one.
I, too remember secretly reading his poems when I was around 13 or
14. It's too bad that at that age I only cared about his "explicit"
language, and missed the true message completely. But now at 30 (yes,
a few weeks ago I turned 30 - ouch) I have a different appreciation
of those same poems.
I think "Sherkat-e-Ketab" (The Book Company) here in L.A. has
published Iraj Mirza's complete works (Divan-e kamel-e Iraj Mirza).
I'll post the address in some future article.
--Sassan
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|> But lets not forget many of his wonderful (dare I say, G-rated)
|> poems, many of which we studied in school. Who among you doesn't
|> know this one: "Goyand marA cho zAd mAdar ....", and the one about
|> the Fox and the Crow (The fox fools the crow into singing so he can
|> steal the cheese that the crow is holding in his beak), or the story
|> of the Mouse and the Lion, (the lion lets the mouse go - instead of
|> killing him - only to be rescued by the mouse later-on when he is caught
|> in a hunter's trap.) and of course the ever popular: "DAsht abaas
|> goli khan pessari...".
Is Fox and the Crow the one that starts with "zAghakee ghAleb-e
paneeree deed"? As far as I remember this poem is written by Habeeb
Yaghmaei.
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|> --Sassan
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Sassan Behzadi
>In article <27...@dice.la.locus.com>, sas...@locus.com (Sassan Behzadi) writes:
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>Is Fox and the Crow the one that starts with "zAghakee ghAleb-e
>paneeree deed"? As far as I remember this poem is written by Habeeb
>Yaghmaei.
>.
You're right. Iraj Mirza's poem starts this way: "KalAghi be shakhi
shodeh jAy-geer / Be menghAr begherefteh ghardi paneer".