Mahdi Ganjavi

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Mahdi Ganjavi is a bilingual Persian-English poet, scholar and literary translator. His work focuses on the interrelationship between imperialism, translation, education, and publishing in the contemporary Middle East. Ganjavi’s translation of contemporary English poetry to Persian is published in several literary magazines such as Neveshta and Namomken. He has also contributed a translation to “Shades of Truth: Iranian Short Fiction of the Fifth Generation in Translation” Mannani, M & E. Dehnavi Eds.,2019. In 2016–2018, Ganjavi edited and oversaw the publication of five little-known Persian novels from the 1930s and 1940s. These novels shed light on the origins of science fiction, detective fiction, and utopian fiction in Persian.)

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Snow, Bijan Elahi

Snow, By Bijan Elahi
Trans. Mehdi Ganjavi
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She could only
Be embraced
Once.
She knew, then,
She would fall like an avalanche.
Yet she wanted
To find shelter in my embrace!
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Her name was snow
Her body, snowy
Her heart of snow
And her pulse
Sound of dripping snow
On the thatched roofs.
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And I loved her
Just like a branch
Broken under the avalanche.

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