One of Kasraie's last photos
Meeting in Moscow
June 5, 1998
The Iranian
The
following pages describe the meeting in Moscow between a group of Iranian
writers living in the U.S. with Siyavash Kasraie (1926-1996), best known
for his epic poem "Arash
Kamaangir". Kasraie was living in the Russian capital since
leaving Iran in the early 1980s, when he was wanted for his leading role
in the Tudeh Party. During the meeting, he avoids talking about the Tudeh
days and reads one of his last poems -- a
heart-wrenching cry for the "land of the sun."
This excerpt is from Massoud Sepand's book "bouy-e jou-ye mouliyan" (1996, San Jose, California), a diary of his trip to Tajikistan in 1994.
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