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Sohrab Sepehri in 1975.
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Poet and painter · 1928–1980

Sohrab Sepehri

سهراب سپهری

Photo: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

A quiet modern poet and painter from Kashan who wrote about water, gardens and wide open space.

Poet and painter

Sohrab Sepehri was born in Kashan, a city of desert gardens, and worked as both a painter and a poet. His poems, gathered in Hasht Ketab, “Eight Books,” are known for their calm, spare language and for images of water, trees, windows and open space.

A garden in words

His poems often read like a walk through a garden, which is part of why he suits Pardis. Kashan is also home to the Fin Garden.

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