Ali Babachahi
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| birth_place = Bushehr, Iran
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Behrang Babachahi
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Ali Babachahi ({{langx|fa| علی باباچاهی }}; born 10 November 1942) is an Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary critic.
Babachahi is one of Iran's most prominent postmodern{{Cite journal |title=Magiran {{!}} بابا چاهی و مولفه های زبانی شعر پست مدرن |url=https://www.magiran.com/paper/2292163 |journal=نشریه مطالعات زبانی بلاغی |language=fa |volume=12 |issue=23 |pages=7–36}} writers and poets, and has published over 50 literary works in various forms. From 1989 onward, he has been engaged in the compilation of a dictionary of the Persian language at the University Publication Center and also edited the Adineh monthly magazine's poetic column.
Life and work
Babachahi, was born in 1942 in Bushehr, the southernmost port city in Iran.{{Cite web |title=علی باباچاهی شاعر بوشهری - شعرپاک |url=https://sherepaak.com/250556/%d8%b9%d9%84%db%8c-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7%da%86%d8%a7%d9%87%db%8c-%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1%db%8c |access-date=2023-02-06 |language=en}} A graduate of Persian Literature from Shiraz university, he has been a sensational poet in the last three decades. His first book in Unreliability was published in 1968. This veteran poet established his controversial book My Drizzle in 1996, that established him as a pioneer in postmodern Iranian poetry. His essays and commentaries on "The Other Mode of Iranian Poetry" and postmodern literary views show his restless, dynamic mind. His works and interviews have always caused discussion among critics and poets. For ten years Babachahi was the poetry editor for Adineh, and ran a poetry workshop in Tehran.
He has published 40 books; half are books of poems, and the other half concern poetry research, review and criticism. He also wrote a narrative verse for youngsters. Several of his poems have been rendered in Arabic, English, Spanish, Swedish, French and Kurdish. Remarkably, Ali Babachahi develops book by book and his poetic stages are unpredictable, bearing a resemblance in this regard to John Ashbery, the American poet.This Too Was a Joke, by Saeed Saeedpoor, June 2011, Tehran, Vistar Publications.
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Category:20th-century Iranian poets