Night: Poetry from the Classical Persian Canon (two volumes)

Dual-language edition, Farsi and English.

A translation by Iman Tavassoly and Paul Cronin.

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami – author of three books of original verse – released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 – 1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). This material is presented to English-speaking readers for the first time, in eight volumes: Nima’s Water, Hafez’s Wine, Saadi’s Tears and Rumi’s Fire. In 2015, Kiarostami published two further books, the dual anthology entitled Night, his selections from a variety of classical and contemporary poets.

Here for a brochure about the Kiarostami poetry project.

Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) was one of Iran’s leading filmmakers who also published several books of photographs and poetry.

^{Night: Poetry from the Classical Persian Canon (2015)
Volume 1 Paperback ISBN 978-1-942782-20-9 300pp 5×8 inches
Volume 1 Hardback ISBN 978-1-942782-21-6 300pp 5×8 inches
Volume 2 Paperback ISBN 978-1-942782-24-7 332pp 5×8 inches
Volume 2 Hardback ISBN 978-1-942782-25-4 332pp 5×8 inches}