The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation

Farshad Sonboldel is the World History and Cultures Librarian at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is also the editor-in-chief for MELA Notes (Journal of the Middle East Librarians’ Association), deputy editor for the Journal of Iranian Studies, and an award-winning poet, writer, literary critic, and researcher in Persian. He has published four books in Persian, two selections of poems titled Metropolis (2015) and She’r-e Boland-e Sharayet (2019), a research monograph, Gozaresh-e Nahib-e Jonbesh-e Adabi-e Shahin: Tondar Kia (2016) about the works of an avant-garde Persian poet in the first half of the 20th century, and an edited volume on the current trends of the literary criticism in Persian literature titled Naqd-e Irad (2021).