Vahe Armen
Biography
Vahe Armen, born in Mashhad/Iran in 1960, has Iranian-Armenian roots. He writes his poems and literary treatises in both Armenian and Persian and works as a translator between these languages. He studied English and sociology in London. Back in Iran he started writing after an accident. To date, Vahe Armen has published four volumes of poetry and several translations. He lives in Tehran.
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Under a jasmine bush
The poems of the Iranian poet Vahe Armen are immensely powerful. In his pictures, the sensually captured and the intellectual merge and stimulate the reader to think. His language is simple but deep. In an interview he says: "I have learned from experience that the most difficult way to write poetry is to make the poem appear simple on the outside, but contain complex complexities of thought in its content."
Translated from the Persian by Hossein Mansouri
