TEHRAN – All 3300 copies of Ahmad Shamlu’s “A Diary of the Much Blessed Royal Trip to the Untidied States of Americ” were sold out at the Iranian bookstores about three weeks after its publication.
Shamlu wrote the satirical diary on his trip to the United States during 1989 and 1990.
The second edition of the book came out by Maziar Publications on Monday.
In the book, Shamlu narrated the adventure of a journey by an imaginary king, probably of the Qajar era.
A Persian poet, writer, and journalist, Shamlu (1925-2000) was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran.
For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete thus far unprecedented in Persian poetry, which distressed some of the admirers of more traditional poetry.
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