Founded in 1950, Khorus Jangi (
Persian: خروس جنگی, The Fighting Cock) was a small artistic group that published a journal by same title. In the beginning, Khorus Jangi was not significantly different from other literary journals of the time. A year later, however, Hushang Irani, the enfant terrible of
modernistPersian poetry, joined the group. Under his influence, the journal was transformed into a radical
modernist literary journal. It published Irani's poems, which no other literary journal of the day, and even almost no literary critics on those days, would dare to acknowledge as poetry. Irani has shrewdly observed and anxiously realized how the potentials that
Nima had introduced into
Persian poetry were being co-opted: Nima and modernist
Persian poetry were in the process of becoming mainstream. Understanding this double edge of youthful tradition, Irani had both praised and condemned Nima.
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Works
Books
Poetry
Spicy Violet on Grey (
Persian: بنفش تند بر خاکستری),
Tehran, September 1951[2]
Understanding of art: In the way to a worldview in art (
Persian: شناخت هنر: در راه یک جهانبینی هنری),
Tehran, January 1952[7]
A letter to Mr. Hussein Kazem-zade Iranshahr: about his collection "Confucius" that he published in Tehran (
Persian: نامه به آقای حسین کاظمزاده ایرانشهر: دربارهٔ مجموعهٔ ایشان که به نام کنفسیوس در تهران منتشر شدهاست),
Tehran, 1956[8]
Gallery
From the book "Some Designs" (
Persian: چند دِسَن),
Tehran, April 1952[6]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.