The Complete Poetic Works of Ahmed Shamloo 1/2

Ahmed Shamlou is a humanist poet, beyond ideology. He was first, himself and his subjectivity, deeply and deeply rooted. This is how he mastered openness to others, aware that he could only be himself to the extent that he was the other. He is also aware that the creative person, whether in poetry, art or thought, is always learning, and does not present himself to others as a teacher. However, as he learns, he tries to illuminate, point, symbolize, and ask questions about things in order to increase his understanding of them in their relationships - and in their consequences. Thus, his poems are not teachings - but rather they are spacious and charming places for meeting between him and those who know how to read. It is a place for individuals: a place for further questioning, understanding, investigation, and knowledge. Poetry does not pose its questions to the world alone, but it also poses them to itself, in order to remain alert in its intuitions, visions, and vision. A poem is a horizon, not a loaf. It is an ongoing research and not a rigid certainty. As such, and at the same time, it is a question about the world, a question about creativity, and a question about poetry. Together, it is a vision in investigation, in transcendence, in rooting and in transcendence. In penetration and transformation. In the rupture and connection between being and what is. It is a place where times, past, present and future, converge.