Poetry
دشت
Not translated into English
Rahim Elham · 1967
Synopsis
Dasht is a collection of Persian poems by Mohammad-Rahim Elham, published in 1346 of the solar calendar, that is 1967, by the Information and Culture publishing house. Its author, a linguist at Kabul University, counts according to Partaw Naderi among the first Afghan poets to turn towards modernity, and among those who translate Western poetry. Another of his collections earned him the Rahman Baba prize for Dari poetry.
Context
According to Razzaq Wedi's notice, Elham's output comprises some one hundred and seventy works, mostly in linguistics: an introduction to grammar in 1344, a new method for studying Dari grammar in 1349, literary theories in 1358, translations into Pashto. His two verse collections are Dasht and Naghma-hā-ye bi-asar. No list consulted knows the title Peymān.
Who it is for
Poems in Persian, with no translation. The reader will gain from knowing that the author was first a grammarian of the Dari language.
Prizes and reception
No known prize for this book; his biographer Wedi credits him with distinctions in linguistics and in poetry.