(1928-1980)Poet and artist. Considered one of the greatest proponents the New Poetry movement which occurred in Iran in the 1950s and 60s, Sepehri was actually also a painter. He can in some ways be seen as the poetic counterpart of Abbas Kiarostami, who took the title of Where is the Friend's House? from a poem by Sepehri, as well as dedicating the film to him in the first frame.
"In 1951, Sepehri published another collection of poetry, The Death of Color, and by 1953 he had graduated from the College of Fine Arts— the top of his class, he went to the royal palace to receive recognition from the monarch, who had just been restored to his peacock throne by a CIA-engineered coup. In 1957, Sepehri traveled to London and Paris, where he studied lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1958, his paintings were exhibited at the Venice Biennale. By 1960, he had secured funding to go to Japan and study wood engraving. After returning to Iran he traveled to India, came back to Iran and began traveling around the country and exhibiting his work throughout the early 1960s, while publishing volumes of his poetry, and in 1970 he moved to New York and lived on Long Island for a few months. He spent much of the early 1970s showing his paintings in Europe, North Africa, and the Levant, including Palestine." [Dabashi]
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