Ali Mousavi-Garmaroudi

Ali Mousavi-Garmaroudi was born in Qom, Iran in 1941. He was a poet, researcher, translator, and one of the cultural directors of the Islamic Revolution. His works include “Shadow of the Palm of Wilayah,” “Red Season of Dying,” “Song of Barrage,” “Line of Death,” and “Grass of Tulip.” His wealth of poetry collections and researches such as “A Critic on the Literature of Tajikistan” turned him into one of the effective and lasting personalities of contemporary poetry in Iran. Garmaroudi, along with a number of his fellow poets, became one of the figures who attempted to elucidate religious and revolutionary literature on a social public level through radio and television. They played an important role in keeping the link between different groups of people with literature and the media. Garmaroudi has written and composed works in all of the various forms of Persian poetry through his mastery over these forms. Like Saffarzadeh, he too has an important role in composing religious blank verse. He has left behind many lasting poems in this pervasive post-revolutionary school, all of which have been very influential. With his mastery over all forms of poetry – from his skillfulness in composing odes and sonnets to performing a form of free verse which relies on a broad scope of traditional words – and an active presence in the management of the country’s culture and media, Garmaroudi has been and still is one of the heralds of the Islamic Revolution’s thinking.