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  Bill Knott

  Bill Knott spent most of his youth in Chicago. He also taught poetry at Columbia College in Chicago in the early 1970s.
  
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  S. Elizabeth

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  Attar of Nishapur

  Conference of the Birds , masterpiece of Persian poet and mystic Attar, fully named Farid ad-Din Attar, allegorically surveys Sufism.
  
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  Tarfia Faizullah

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  Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān (1921 – 23 May 2012; Persian: ستاره فرمانفرمائیان‎ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) was one of the daughters of Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of the Qajar dynasty.
  
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  Kim Eun-joo

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  Abdal Hakim Murad

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  Saadi

  Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi (Persian: ابومحمد مصلح الدین بن عبدالله شیرازی‎, Arabic: سعدي الشيرازي) better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī (Persian: سعدی) or simply Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but has also been quoted in western sources. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest masters of the classical literary tradition.
  
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  W.S. Merwin

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  Yusef Komunyakaa

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  Baba Tahir

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  Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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  Nirmalendu Goon

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  Alfred Noyes

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  Nima Yushij

  علی اسفندیاری یا علی نوری مشهور به نیما یوشیج (زاده ۲۱ آبان ۱۲۷۴ خورشيدی در دهکده یوش استان مازندران - درگذشت ۱۳ دی ۱۳۳۸ خورشیدی در شمیران شهر تهران) شاعر معاصر ایرانی است. وی بنیانگذار شعر نو فارسی است.‏
  
  نیما پوشیج با مجموعه تأثیرگذار افسانه که مانیفست شعر نو فارسی بود، در فضای راکد شعر ایران انقلابی به پا کرد. نیما آگاهانه تمام بنیاد ها و ساختارهای شعر کهن فارسی را به چالش کشید. شعر نو عنوانی بود که خود نیما بر هنر خویش نهاده بود.‏
  
  تمام جریان‌های اصلی شعر معاصر فارسی مدیون این انقلاب و تحولی هستند که نیما مبدع آن بود.‏
  
  

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  Faramaz ibn Khodadad

  از این مؤلف قرن ششم هجری تنها یک کتاب با عنوان سمک عیار باقی مانده است. او در مقدمه جلد ۳ نام خود را «فرامرز بن خداداد بن عبدالله الکاتب الارجانی» آورده است. ارجان درنزدیکی بهبان کنونی، مرز بین فارس و خوزستان قرار داشت و نویسنده می‌گوید داستانش را از شخصی به نام «صدقة بن ابی القاسم» اهل شیراز شنیده است. با این همه، از شواهد درون کتاب این طور به نظر می‌رسد که کتاب در خراسان نوشته شده است۰

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  Norbert Elias

  Norbert Elias was a German-Jewish sociologist who later became a British citizen, though he is often referred to as a Dutch thinker, and made his home in Amsterdam in his latter years.
  
  Elias's theory focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He significantly shaped what is called process or figurational sociology. Due to historical circumstances, Elias had long remained a marginal author, until being rediscovered by a new generation of scholars in the 1970s, when he eventually became one of the most influential sociologists in the history of the field.
  
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  Shangyang Fang

  Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China, and composes poems both in English and Chinese. While studying civil engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he realized his bigger passion lies in the architecture of language and is now a poetry fellow at Michener Center for Writers. He is the recipient of the Joy Harjo Poetry Award and Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. His name, Shangyang, originating from Chinese mythology, was a one-legged bird whose dance brought forth flood and rain.

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  Du Fu

  Du Fu (Chinese: 杜甫, 712–770) was one of China's greatest poets and a central figure in the literary tradition of the Tang dynasty, often hailed as the "Poet Sage" (詩聖) for his moral integrity and the depth of his work. His poetry, numbering over 1,400 surviving pieces, captures the essence of his turbulent era, blending historical insight, personal struggle, and a deep concern for humanity.
  Born into a scholarly family, Du Fu was well-educated in the Confucian classics and aspired to a government career. However, his attempts to gain a stable official position were largely unsuccessful. He experienced firsthand the chaos of the An Lushan Rebellion (755–763), which devastated the Tang empire, displacing millions and leading to widespread suff

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  Shams Tabrizi

  Shams-i-Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی‎‎) or 'Shams al-Din Mohammad' (1185–1248) was a Persian poet and is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz). Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days, before fleeing for Damascus. The tomb of Shams-i Tabrīzī was recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  

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  Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi

  "Shahāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī (Persian: شهاب‌ الدین سهروردی‎‎, also known as Sohrevardi) was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in Islamic philosophy and mysticism that drew upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas.
  He is referred to by the honorific title "Shaikh al-ʿIshraq" (Master of Illumination) and "Shaikh al-Maqtul" (the Murdered Master) in reference to his execution for heresy.

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