Hushang Irani Explained

Hushang Irani
Birth Date:	1925
Birth Place:	Hamedan, Iran
Death Place:	Paris, France
Period:	1948–1956
Movement:	Modern literature, Surrealism
Notableworks:	Spicy Violet on Grey Grey The curtain came into flame and the Devil came in I think all about you now, I think about all of you now Some Designs Understanding of art: In the way to a worldview in art
Resting Place:	Behesht-e Zahra

Hushang Irani (Persian: هوشنگ ایرانی; 1925 in Hamedan – 4 September 1973 in Paris) was an Iranian poet, translator, critic, journalist and painter. He is one of the pioneers of "The New Poetry" and surrealism in Iran.

The Fighting Cock days

Founded in 1950, Khorus Jangi (Persian: خروس جنگی, The Fighting Cock) was a small artistic group that published a journal by same title. In the beginning, Khorus Jangi was not significantly different from other literary journals of the time. A year later, however, Hushang Irani, the enfant terrible of modernist Persian poetry, joined the group. Under his influence, the journal was transformed into a radical modernist literary journal. It published Iranis poems, which no other literary journal of the day, and even almost no literary critics on those days, would dare to acknowledge as poetry. Irani has shrewdly observed and anxiously realized how the potentials that Nima had introduced into Persian poetry were being co-opted: Nima and modernist Persian poetry were in the process of becoming mainstream. Understanding this double edge of youthful tradition, Irani had both praised and condemned Nima.^[1]

Works

Books

Poetry:

• • Spicy Violet on Grey (Persian: بنفش تند بر خاکستری), Tehran, September 1951^[2]
  • Grey (Persian: خاکستری), Tehran, June 1952^[3]
  • The curtain came into flame and the Devil came in (Persian: شعله‌ای پرده را برگرفت و ابلیس به درون آمد), Tehran, November 1952^[4]
  • I think all about you now, I think about all of you now (Persian: اکنون به تو می‌اندیشم، به توها می‌اندیشم), Tehran, January 1956^[5]

Designs:

• • Some Designs (Persian: چند دِسَن), Tehran, April 1952^[6]

Critical Essays:

• • Understanding of art: In the way to a worldview in art (Persian: شناخت هنر: در راه یک جهان‌بینی هنری), Tehran, January 1952^[7]
  • A letter to Mr. Hussein Kazem-zade Iranshahr: about his collection "Confucius" that he published in Tehran (Persian: نامه به آقای ''حسین کاظم‌زاده ایرانشهر'': دربارهٔ مجموعهٔ ایشان که به نام ''کنفسیوس'' در تهران منتشر شده‌است|italic=unset), Tehran, 1956^[8]

Gallery

From the book "Some Designs" (Persian: چند دِسَن), Tehran, April 1952^[6]

External links

• Hushang Irani on Google books

Notes and References

1. Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad & Talattof, Kamran. Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry. Koninklijke Brill NV. Leiden, The Netherlands. 2004.
2. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. بنفش تند بر خاکستری: چند شعر. تهران: (ناشر مؤلف)، شهریور ۱۳۳۰ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211100/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/881677 . dead .
3. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. خاکستری: چند شعر دیگر. تهران: (ناشر مؤلف)، خرداد ۱۳۳۱ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211212/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/877353 . dead .
4. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. شعله‌ای پرده را برگرفت و ابلیس به درون آمد: و باز هم چند شعر. تهران: (ناشر مؤلف)، آبان ۱۳۳۱ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211308/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/878884 . dead .
5. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. اکنون به تو می‌اندیشم، به توها می‌اندیشم. تهران: (بی‌نا)، دی ۱۳۳۴ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211320/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/880432 . dead .
6. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. چند دِسَن. تهران: (بی‌نا)، اردی‌بهشت ۱۳۳۱ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211445/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/877354 . dead .
7. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. شناخت هنر: در راه یک جهان‌بینی هنری. تهران: (بی‌نا)، دی ۱۳۳۰ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211519/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/881681 . dead .
8. Web site: ایرانی، هوشنگ. نامه به آقای حسین کاظم‌زاده ایرانشهر: دربارهٔ مجموعهٔ ایشان که به نام کنفسیوس در تهران منتشر شده‌است. تهران: (بی‌نا)، ۱۳۳۵ . 2011-08-27 . 2011-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211627/http://opac.nlai.ir/opac-prod/bibliographic/878615 . dead .