● Birthplace: Tehran
● Died: 20 November 2005 in Tehran
Biography
Manouchehr Atashi, nicknamed Serena, was a poet, critic, translator and journalist. He was born in Bushehr, Dehroud village, Bushehr province. He completed his elementary and secondary education in Bushehr and went to Shiraz to study for an undergraduate degree. Atashi became a teacher in 1954 and taught in Bushehr and its surroundings. In 1960 he entered Tehran University of Education and received his BA in English. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature and began teaching at Qazvin High School. In addition to teaching, he also managed literary sections of some cultural and art magazines. At the end of his years as an editor, he worked as an editor for the National Iranian Radio and Television Organization, retiring in 1980 and returning to Bushehr. Fire started publishing his poems in 1954 and within a few years he became one of the most prominent contemporary poets. His first collection of poetry, Another Song, was published in Tehran in 1960, and after that, two more collections, entitled Singing Soil and Visiting, were published. In the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, he developed the style of poetry in the mid-nineties, and switched to white poetry in the last two decades of his life. In the late 1980s, he began a new experience with another song in contemporary poetry. With the discovery and intuition of southern and wild nature, he achieves an instinctive violence in poetry. But what distinguishes poetic violence from the fiery and incoherent element of some poets before and after himself, such as Nosrat Rahmani or Kiomars Manshizadeh, is the epic tone of his poems. His poems are desert poetry in the seventies, eighties and eighties, and the natural elements of this desert blend epic and violence. Beyond that, love, hope, and desire also manifest themselves in this southern nature and show a pure emotion in the triangle: violence, epic, southern face.
Symbiosis with indigenous and primitive nature of the south is the originality of the poetic fire. The scorching-South climate, with the intrinsic of the wild and warm blood, has rich his mind from sensory experiences. Objects and forms of the climate are often in the essence of the inner poet. The fire with the release of the series: Another song in 1960, introduced itself as a new, community-oriented and dynamic poet. In this series, an unconventional attitude of the poet has an effect on the nature and existence of poetry and objects.
The surviving Master Manouchehr Atashi died at age 6 at Tehran’s Sina Hospital on November 7 and was buried in Bushehr Port. A few days before his death, he had been introduced as a lasting figure in literature at the Standing Face Ceremony.
Works
1959 – Other Songs
1967 – Soil Singing
1969 – Meet in Twilight
1971 – At The End of The Beginning
1986 – The Lyrics Option
1991 – Description of Syrian Flowers
1991 – Wheat And Cherry
1997 – More Beautiful Than The Old World Shape
1999 – How Bitter is This Apple
2001 – Gulf and Caspian
2001 – Baran Barg ZAVQ: The Office of Ghazal
2001 – The Last Occurrence
2001 – An Accident At Morning
2005 – Night Roots
2005 – Ghazal in Ghazals of Sorena
Translation
– Fontamara, Novel by Iniatsio Silone
– Blue Dolphin Island
– Migrants
– Matchmaker
