FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI

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FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI:

REVERIE OF RIRA

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A LIVING HISTORY IS SUNG

BY TELLING ITS MELODY

--ANTONIO MACHADO

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Rverie is not only illusion ,but in a more extensive meaning: dream,daydraeam and nocturnal dream* or being lost in one's thoughts.It could happen with sound and song.a reverie of hearing.It also appears in cry and howl.In a sourdined society,reverie is sourdined and muted,as one finds in Nima's RIRA,or more eloquent:REVERIE OF RIRA.

RIRA ,the poem Nima Yushij wrote in 1331/1952,during mohamad reza shah's rule ,but inspired by muted society and era of Reza Shah,is a sound image of sourdined Iran.As Nima himself mentioned:"contrary to the past,the sound will come out of a lover heart,living,natural and eloquent"He does not believe this is a sound by human being's voice.But on the other hand,this is human being sound,as nothing is meaningless,albeit looking or sounding that way.

"RIRA ...is either IRAN,the name of the country or a popular name of a woman,or the unseen who is hidden in that overwhelming darkness of night.That is a favorite image of Nima's poetry.So to hear a poet who calls for HIRAN,IRAN,...HEY IRAN...[EY IRAN]...AY IRAN...MIRA,VIRA...AMIRA...MIRAN...VIRAN...HEARAN...RA...AH...,etc..."** or even ZIRA...NIMA

This is the same movements of things,in the rush of relationship between mind and "technique' or Tarz-e Sanati in Nima's word.If Nima's poem,EY SHAB/O NIGHT feels that its voice comes out weak,but is audacious in containing and memorizing the sound of people and follow them through cries.That is,in Nima's notes,"a harmony of cries of submissives and their supports on the battle field .Cries as cold as waves in the sea ,or warm as flames of fire.Dark and grim and still revolutionary.***

RIRA could be the lost voice of Nima,in "telling and singing",as Octavio Paz put it in his "Other Voice".

It is "to express loneliness in a long night of a gloomy life and society,all by his word in his world."**

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*from FARA,Farhang Rahnemaye Adabi,also:

Like in my books:ROYAIHA/reveries , SHAB-E ROYAIHA/nocturnal reveries; and also : TRILOGY OF ROYA/ trilogy of reverie

**See More: F.S.,REPRESENTING REPRESENTICISM, ON POETRY OF NIMA YUSHIJ (1274/1895-1338/1960),Nveshta International,No.10,Feb-Mar 2009,pp.24-49

***from Nima :Introduction: Family of Soldier

Here is a translation of Nima's Voice in RIRA...

NIMA YUSHIJ : RIRA

Tr.Faramarz Soleimani

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RIRA there is a song tonight

from behind the woods that

brings to eyes

a dark bright reflection

or ruined image

someone might be singing

But this is not the man's voice

that I have heard before

regularly

in the deep of the night

deeper than

my sorrows

and I know

all the men's voice

by heart.

One night

on the boat

they sang so sad

that I still see

the horrific sea

in my dreams

RIRA,RIRA

The sky wishes to sing

in this black night

she is not with herself

she's gone with her voice

but can not sing.

RIRA

(See Farsi/Persian version in:

NIMA YUSHIJ

COLLECTED POEMS,FARSI AND TABARI

Eds;Sirus Tahbaz,Sheragim Yushij

Negah,Tehran 1371/1992)

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Vladimir Horowitz: Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka #20 in D Flat major, Op. 30,3

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