Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is a professor of Persian at the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He is also the founding director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland.

• Contents Acknowledgments, Notes, and a Dedication Prologue by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Introduction by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab – The Bleeding Pen: Literature and Politics in Modern Iran Part One 1 – Revolutionary Posturing: Iranian Writers and the Iranian Revolution 2 – Protest and Perish: A History of the Writers’ Association of Iran 3 – Authors and Authorities: Censorship and Literary Communication in the Islamic Republic of Iran 4 – Of Hail and Hounds: The Image of the Iranian Revolution in Recent Persian Literature Part Two 5 – A Well Amid the Waste: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ahmad Shamlu 6 – Up from the Underground: The Meaning of Exile in Gholamhossein Sa.edi’s Last Short Stories 7 – Poet of Desires Turned to Dust: In Memoriam Mehdi Akhavan Saless 8 – A Storyteller and His Times: Ali-Akbar Sa.idi-Sirjani of Iran Notes Bibliography Index