From: World Literature Today | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A major voice in postwar Persian poetry, Esmail Khoi began publishing in the early 1960s and is active today while living abroad. His early poetry reveals its debt to the Tehran literary scene of the 1960s and early 1970s with some of the cliches of the time: images such as "bloody dawn" or "the window," and frequent verbal repetitions within a poem. He seems to have found his own voice quickly, and soon shows his debt to his contemporaries more by allusion than by being one of the crowd. Khoi's style exploits the resources of the Persian language in many ways, often pushing ...