Sassan Tabatabai

Sassan Tabatabai is a poet, translator, and scholar of Medieval Persian literature. He is Master Lecturer in World Languages and Literatures and the Core Curriculum, and Coordinator of the Persian Language Program at Boston University. His translations of Persian poetry have appeared in Harvard Review Online, Leviathan Quarterly, Literary Imagination, Pusteblume: Journal of Translation, Rattapallax, The Republic of Letters, and Seneca Review. He is the author of Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry (Leiden University Press), Sufi Haiku (Nemi Books), and Uzunburun: Poems (Pen and Anvil), and translator of the novel Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat (Penguin Classics). His forthcoming books of translation include an English translation of the poetry of Mohammad-Reza Shafi’i-Kadkani (ILEX), and a Persian translation of the poetry of David Ferry (Boustan Press).