Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part eight

How does a poem begin?

a lot of things can trigger a poem, to me is memory.

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part seven

How important is music to your poetry?

I see them as one thing, they are not divided from each other. Am not talking about rhyme or rhythm am talking about internal music like some images for example I believe they have their own music. 

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part six

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?

Baudelaire, Rimbaud, O’Hara and Nima Yoshij, almost every day I have to read them or at least take look at the book cover or touch them in order to breath and Lorca too and Pessoa, a lot of poets circling in my brain, so many poets Pushkin for example, Hart Crane.

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part five

What other poetry books have you been reading lately?

In a time of violence by Eavan Boland, Red Suitcase by Naomi Shihab-Nye, Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part four

What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?

To live as a poet.

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part three

How does your work first enter the world?

Well I published my poems as a radio drama on my Instagram and twitter, Khashayar Mohammadi my friend found it interesting and he started to translate it, am so appreciate of him.

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part two

How do you know when a poem is finished?

It is a moment, you can feel it, and you feel you cannot add or remove any word not even a single word cannot be replaced.

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi : part one

Saeed Tavanaee Marvi is a poet and translator born in the city of Mashhad in 1983. His books include The Woman With Chlorophylic eyes, Verses of Death: An Anthology of American Poetry and a translation of Richard Brautigan's Tokyo Montana Express.

What are you working on?

Working on a new book of poems: Criminal Nights. With an episodic structure in narrative and noir in tone and atmosphere. Better to say it is detective poetry.