Bijan Elahi

Bijan Elahi (Persian: بیژن الهی; pronounced [biː'ʒæn elɑː'hiː]; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator.

Elahi's poems were posthumously published in two volumes: Vision (2014) and Youths (2015).

Youths brings together what the poet’s calls his “young poems” (Javaniha, 233), many of which had been published in serial form prior to the 1979 revolution.

Vision is a collection of four poem cycles that indicate the fullness of Elahi’s contribution to Persian literature.

"[3] Elahi's poems have appeared in English in Poetry Wales, Waxwing, The McNeese Review, and Tin House.The first book-length translation of his poetry appeared in 2019 under the title High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian.