House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Dean Atta ‘now there is only the

‘now there is only the river / that was always on its own way’

 The Man in the Quilted Dressing-gown portrays a very particular old man

In the cloud chamber

Living by Troubled Waters is innovative

House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Dean Atta ‘now there is only theNotwithstanding his spare output, with only two volumes of poetry Diary of House Arrest (Ruznama ye tabid, 2003) and Blue Bicycle (Ducharkha yi b, 2015) to his name, Iranian poet Hasan Alizadeh has left a poetic signature on modern Persian poetry, distinguished by lyricism and colloquialism. In Alizadehs poems, a labyrinthine memory, structured by the intricate architecture of old Iranian bazaars and mosques, continually revises itself in spontaneous