Kasrai took part in 1977 Tehran Goethe-Institut nights of poetry readings, a noted public event with dissident overtones in the pre-Iranian Revolution period.

He was, at various times, in close personal relationships with such literary figures as Iraj Afshar, Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Houshang Ebtehaj (alias H. E. Sayeh), Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (alias M. E. Behazin), Forough Farrokhzad, Morteza Keyvan, Nader Naderpour, Shahrokh Meskoob, Fereydoon Moshiri, Brayim Younisi and Nima Yooshij.

Kasrai's complete collection of poems was published as a 773 pages octavo in 2005 in Tehran by Ketabe Nader Publications, under the title Az Ava ta Havaye Aftab.

Arash is a legendary figure saving his country from the humiliation and misery of defeat by putting his soul into an arrow, which will travel over and gain back lost territory.

Like Arashe Kamangir, it is an epic in the new poetry style, indeed a modern follow up to Ferdowsi's Rostam and Sohrab, with a proposed political interpretation.

Published after Kasrai's break up with the Tudeh Party and a move from Moscow to Vienna, Mohreye Sorkh is an expression of regret or repentance over decades of Communist activity.

Indeed, connecting his poem to current suffering in his country, Kasrai's preface speaks of "the serious mistakes of benevolent people whose actions proceeded from fascination instead of knowledge, hurried and shortsighted, leading to the verge of destruction, and now facing the heavy price to pay".