Collected Poems

copied out by hand

رونویسی شعر فارسی

Persian poems I love, a few lines at a time.

برای از رو نوشتن از شعرهایی که دوست‌شان دارم.

fig. 1 · form across a thousand years

Distant reading in miniature: each poem is a column at its poet's time, each line a dot at its length in letters. The classical lines keep to a narrow band; after Nima's «Qoqnus» (1937) the lines come loose. Measured on the excerpts copied here.

for tab into the figure · ←→step · enteropen the poem · escback to the page

jkpoem (an open poem hands on to the next) · ←→line · ttranslate · rreading en / fa · ynext year · eopen all · ?every key

AI translations are provided for convenience but may not capture the full poetic nuance and cultural depth of the original verses.

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and last

I’ve built my homeland,18

I’ve even founded my state21

in my language.12

محمود درویش mahmoud darwish