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The Vine Girl, Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza

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The Vine Girl

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Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza

دختر َرز گلچ?ن? از شعر حکمت خو?شتن است. شعر حکمت خو?شتن، حکا?ت خو?ش گفتن است؛ حکا?ت ره مستانه مطرب عشق است؛ ا?ن اثر ادا? رسالت چون ساغرت ُپر است بنوشان و نوش کن است This is a book of self-wisdom prose poetry in Persian. An initial surreal narrative paves the ground for the enlightened poet to express his Romantic revelations. Self-wisdom serves as the umbrella term for this transcendentalist state of human being. With a timbre and color reminiscent of Persian mysticism, the book lights and delights readers while keeping its intentions inside the fortress of ars gratia artis. The Vine Girl (Dokhtar-e-Raz) is the pivotal concept, the password, to string the beads of self-wisdom throughout the work. Body and soul, mind and heart, the world and the Beyond, existence and non-existence, knowledge and ignorance, etc. form the yin and yang to (de)construct the poet's self. The Vine Girl offers the wine, essential to the journey of self-wisdom; only the drunken can open eyes to the coast of the Sea with countless sunken sails!