Exile and dissonance: the poetry of Naanaam (Hossein Fazeli)

Abstract

Naanaam's Poems Represent One Of The Most Subversive, Eclectic, and marginal styles of contemporary Persian poetry written by exiled Iranians. His knowledge of contemporary world poetry as well as classical Persian poetry provides him with solid grounds for a peculiar style that is at once thoughtful and playful, serious and sarcastic, engaged and apathetic, violent and kind. He jolts his readers out of routine readings in a variety of ways: he uses English words in the middle of Persian writings; he parodies the well-known lines by the dominant figures of contemporary Persian poetry; he splendidly highlights the ironies and contradictions of everyday life experiences that we normally tend to take for granted; he antagonizes and subverts all that is dominant, be it poetic style, linguistic norm, Logic, or Truth.