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Xayyam is perhaps the most well-known Iranian poet around the world, but who he is and where the poetry attributed to him has come from is in effect a matter of precarious historical consensus, based upon partial information and interpretation, among the Easterners and the Westerners. Truth be told, the character we know today as Xayyam is a confidence man wrapped in the hazy mist of fleeting eons. Consequently, what this book undertakes to bring into light is that how the character named Xayyam and the poetry attributed to him are in fact the collective product of a myriad of differing or...

This is my little book of experimental poetry and also the first book I ever published, as well as my first book that was banned by the authorities of the Islamic Republic; so it was the first in quite a number of things! Full of ideas, this bricolage shows something of my epistemological fascination with Borges and Foucault, with a pinch of Housman's morbid reticence, which all in all pushed me to take up the Songs attributed to Xayyam later on. The subject matters being so diverse, the sole factor that brings the isolated poems together is experimentation itself, which arises from my...