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Screw

A screw, a defective one, that’s what I am. Pay attention! I’m not a nail. Nails are flat head with no character I say. They

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Khuzestan 1958-60

These photos, like the group that was posted here in April [see: Memories of an American boy], were taken by my father Charles Schroeder during

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anonymous

Gmelin’s Persia & Persians

EXCERPT from “Travels Through Northern Persia: 1770-1774” by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, translated by Willem, M Floor (2007, Mage Publishers). Publisher's Note: In 1770 the young

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Ah, Los Angeles

This is the revised version of my Poem, “Ah, Los Angeles” first published in “Daftar-haye Shanbeh” No. 2, 1994 and then in English in Muddy

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The earthquake

The earthquake drunkenly rolled into town. A town that, seen from above, was the greenest line holding onto the hill's shadow to guard the olive

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Eclipsing the sun

The Sun rises because we will her to rise. Her rays are made beautiful by our eyes. In the microcosm, perception forges our reality: We

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Majid Naficy

Ah, Los Angeles

>>>Above in English Majid Naficy's books include Muddy Shoes; Father and Son and Modernism and Ideology in Persian Literature. He lives in Los Angeles.  

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