AFSANEH NIMA,introduction-1

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AFSANEH is the beginning of NIMA and NIMAI POETRY
AFSANEH is the beginning of MODERN PERSIAN POETRY,as well.It is written by NIMA in Day 1301/1923
after these poems:
~TALE OF PALEFACE,COLD BLOOD(Hout 1299/march 1920)
~O NIGHT(1301/1922),first published in NOBAHAR NEWSPAPER(ed;MOHAMAD TAGHI BAHAR),Vol 13,No.10,1301
MENNAT DUNAN/indebtedness to inferiors,Assad 1300/August 1921
NIMA,in a letter to Mobasheri,dated 22 khordad 1324/1945 writes:
"I gave this poem of AFSANEH to the late friend MIRZADEH ESHGHI,with a short introduction.At that time ,in a second floor office in Eslambol Street,he was publishing GHARN BISTOM[NEWSPAPER].
I do not recall why the complete poem was not printed in there."
Portions of this poem ,in my english translation have been presented in a number  of NIMA NIGHT OF POETRY and or in literary journals,and gradually will appear in complete edition,on this site,or in print.
_F.S.