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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
This article focuses on how Esmail Khoi poetically inhabits the world of his poetry as an observer and visionary explorer. Its aim is to make manifest how he engages his readers in reciprocal poetic dialogues to communicate his unique vision of the lived world. The dialogic function of his poetry is then examined as the ground of emergence of an experiential poetic mode of knowledge of the human condition. The article also considers Khoi's poetry as work done in the fields of language, alchemically transmuting everyday language of communication into poetic discourse. Finally, an analysis of his poem “To the Aged Mulberry Branch” explicates how Khoi can create a world of imagination whole and entire unto itself by his minimalist approach to poetry.
I would like to thank Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Director of the Roshan Institute Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, who invited me to present a shorter version of this article at “Esmail Khoi: A Retrospective,” held on 21 December 2008 at the University of Maryland, College Park.