Vāḥah-yi Zumurudīn (2 Zabānah): Persiska (Farsi) 1403

The Emerald Oasis is a selection of poems by Sohrab Sepehri (1970-1978), a renowned Iranian poet, writer, and painter. Sohrab Sepehri is undoubtedly one of the great contemporary poets of Iran. Since he is both a poet and a painter, his poetry is a design of poetic moments, and his painting is full of poetry. These two experiences have a single origin, and this origin, as far as it can be said correctly, is having a kind of magical empathy with nature, gazing at wonderful moments and listening to the hidden beats of the pulse that gives life to people and things; the longing for the homeland and the desire to reach the source of the generosity of existence. The isolation that is Sepehri’s way of life is also reflected in his poetic style. He has nothing to do with everyday events, popular intellectual tastes, and political tendencies of the time. Therefore, his gaze is constantly fixed on the amazing events, the original events that shape the invisible destiny of the world at every moment and with every breath. But Sepehri is not a distraught and lost poet who laments the burnt ruins of his time, but rather his pain is the longing to find a place from which all human spiritual experience arises. The work of selecting and translating the poems into French is the work of Dariush Shaygan, who has a longing for life and a great affinity with the target language and is one of the well-known critics and thinkers of Persian literature. This selection includes 21 important poems and is part of the "The Voice of the Water's Foot" poem collection.