Amir-Hossein Afrasiabi was born in 1934 in Esfahan,
Iran. Poet, short-story writer, and critic, he has been living in
the Netherlands since 1986. He started writing poetry as a child
and is the author of six books of poetry in Persian as well as poems
in Dutch. His Persian books are Autumn Words, With
the Seagulls, Station, On the Way, More
Words, and Until the Next Station. In language unusually
fresh for his generation, Afrasiabi’s poetry meditates on aging
and memory. (updated 2006)