4 Semi-Concrete Poems

Ali Asadollahi, an Iranian poet, is the author of six Persian poetry books and winner of some prestigious Persian poetry awards, such as Iran’s Best Young Poet award, Iran’s Journalist Society Award. Asadollahi is a permanent member and the former secretary of the Iranian Writers’ Association (founded in 1968 by forty-nine notable Persian writers with the objective of promoting freedom of speech). His poems and translations have been published in Bellingham Review, Consequence, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and others.