Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Books

• An Eyeful of Earth, An Eyeful of Ocean

  An Eyeful of Earth, An Eyeful of Ocean

  Selected Love Poems of Mandana Zandian

  Ibex Publishers, 2014

• Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran

  Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran

  University of Utah Press, 1995

Additional Books

• Bud o Nemud-e Sokhan: Matn-e Adabi, Baftar-e Ejtema`i, va Tairkh-e Adabiyyat, Gozideh-ye Maqalehha-ye Adabi [Literature, Its Existence and its Appearance: Selected Literary Essays]. Tehran: Naamak Publishers, 2015. [Reissued in 2016 in Los Angeles, CA by Ketab Corporation]
• Tali`eh-ye Tajaddod dar She`r-e Farsi. Translated into Persian [English: Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran by Mas`ud Jafari]. Tehran: Morvarid Publishers, 2005.
• Walking with the Wind: Poems by Abbas Kiarostami. Translated into English [with Michael Beard]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Archives Series, 2001.
• Outlandia: Songs of Exile. Translated into English [with Michael Beard]. Vancouver, B.C.: NIK Publishers, 1999.
• Remembering the Flight: Twenty Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad. Translated with an Introduction. Vancouver, B.C.: NIK Publishers, 1997.
• Edges of Poetry: Selected Poems of Esmail Khoi, A Bilingual Text. Translated into English with an Introduction [with Michael Beard]. Santa Monica: Blue Logos Press, 1995.
• Sarchesmeha-ye Dastan-e Kutah-e Farsi [Translation into Persian of Christophe Balay and Michel Cuypers, Aux Sources de la Nouvelle Persane]. Paris/Tehran: The French Institute of Iranology, 1987.
• Tam Jonz [Translation into Persian of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones: A Founding]. Tehran: Nilufar Publications, 1984.
• Bolandiha-ye Machu Pichu and three other volumes of poetry by Pablo Neruda [Translations into Persian of Pablo Neruda’s Alturas de Macchu Picchu, Song of Protest, Celebrating Chile’s Revolution, and Spain in our Hearts with the collaboration of Faramarz Soleimani]. Tehran: Azad Publications, 1982.
• Bargozideh-ye Ash`ar-e Karl Sandberg [Translation into Persian of Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg with the collaboration of Mahmud Azad]. Tehran: Azad Publications, 1981.
• An Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1978. [Introductory essary reprinted in Critical Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature. Ed. and comp. Thomas M. Ricks. Three Continents Press, 1984, pp. 209-235]
• Ensan Khod ra Misazad [Translation into Persian of V. Gordon Childe’s Man Makes Himself with the collaboration of Mohammad Halatai]. Tehran: Franklin Press, 1973.

Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

• “A Young Scholar at the University of London: Ehsan Yarshater, Walter Hennings and the Study of Persian Dialects,” Iran Nameh, 30:2 (Summer 2015), 12-20.
• “Simin Behbahani: The Preserved Tablet of Our Times” Iran Nameh, 29:3-4  (Fall/Winter 2014-2015), 272-280.
• “Fire-Breeding Liquid (Ab-e Atash-zay): The Nature and Functions of Wine in Iranian Culture”, in Wine Culture in Iran and Beyond. Ed. by Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz and Florian Schwarz, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Wien, 2014.
• “Document and Text in Literature and in History: the case of Hafez and His Divan”, Arash, no. 108 (June 2012): 43-51.
• “La Poesie Persane Contemporaine: Un apercu historique”, Europe: Revue mensuelle, annee 90e, No. 997 (Mai 2912): 52-69.
• “Love, Separation, and Reunion: The Master-Narrative of the Human Condition in Persian Mystical Poetry”, in Converging Zones: Persian Literary Tradition and the Writing of History, [Studies in Honor of Amin Banani], Ed. Wali Ahmadi, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2012.
• “Literature: Persian” In The Encyclopedia Britannica (2009 Book of the Year), Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2011.
• “Literature: Persian” In The Encyclopedia Britannica (2009 Book of the Year), Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2010.
• “Literature: Persian” In The Encyclopedia Britannica (2008 Book of the Year), Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2009.
• “Literature: Persian” In The Encyclopedia Britannica (2007 Book of the Year), Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2008.
• “Folk Literature: Persian,” In The Encyclopedia of Folklore and Folk Literature, Gale Publishing Group, London, 2007.
• “Iran Today: Literature,” “Iran Today: Culture,” “Iran Today: Major Literary Figures.” [Three Entries in Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic, London: Routledge, 2007].
• “Farrokhzad, Forugh,” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, New York: Springer, 2006.
  
• “The Spiritual Couplets,” In World Literature and Its Times (Volume 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them), New York: Thomson & Gale, 2004.
• “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” In World Literature and Its Times (Volume 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them), New York: Thomson & Gale, 2004, (with Pamela S. Loy).
• “Literature: Persian” In The Encyclopedia Britannica (2003 Book of the Year), Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., p. 236-237.
• “Literature: Persian” In The Encyclopedia Britannica (2003 Book of the Year), Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., p. 258-259.
• “Beyond Translation: Interactions between English and Persian Poetry,” in Iran and the Surrounding World, 1500-2000: Interactions between Iran and the Neighboring Cultures, Ed. Nikki Keddie and Rudi Matthee, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002, pp. 36-60.

Forthcoming and Works in Progress

• Tarikh-e She`r-e Farsi [History of Persian Poetry]. Projected as a six-volume series on a Comprehensive History of the Poetic Arts in the Persian Language in iran and the Persian World, 2004-2018 [work in progress]
• From Epic to the Gonstic: Poetic Change in Twelfth Century Persia, 2016 [work in progress]
• The Dawning of Indo-Persian Poetry: Bahmanid Poets of Deccan (1350-1600): A Historical Survey, 2016 [work in progress]
• London Lectures of Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Selected Leverhulme and Other Lectures given as Leverhulme Visiting Professor at SOAS, University of London: Haus Publishing, 2015 [forthcoming]
• Writing Home: Expatriate Iranian Writing in a Historical Perspective. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2015 [forthcoming]

Edited Volumes

• Persian Poetry in Iran, 1940-Present, Volume 14 of an 18-Volume History of Persian Literature, General Editor: Ehsan Yarshater. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016 [forthcoming]
• Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature. [co-editor with Nahid Mozafari]. New York: Arcade Publications, 2005. Reissued in 2009 in the UK as Strange Times in Persia, London: I.B. Tauris.
• World Literature and Its Times (Volume 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them). New York: Thomson & Gale, 2004 [Editor of Section]
• Essays on Nima Yushij, Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry. [co-editor with Kamran Talattof] Leiden: Brill, 2004.
• Selections from the Literature of Iran, 1977-1997 [Special Issue of the Journal of Iranian Studies, Volume 30, Numbers 3-4]. Cambridge, MA: Society for Iranian Studies, 1997.
• Naqd-e Adabi dar Iran (Literary Criticism in Iran) [Special Issue of Iran-Nameh, Volume XII, no. 1 (Winter 1994)]. Bethesda, MD: The Foundation for Iranian Studies, 1994.