Hasan Alizadeh has published only two volumes of poetry, Diary of House Arrest and Blue Bicycle. His spare output notwithstanding, Alizadeh left his poetic signature on modern Persian poetry in a style distinguished by lyricism and colloquialism. Initially a short story writer, he cultivated his writing talents alongside the notable Iranian novelists Reza Daneshvar and Ghazaleh Alizadeh in the literary circle that developed in their hometown of Mashhad. In Alizadeh’s poems, a labyrinthine memory, structured by the intricate architecture of old Iranian bazaars and mosques, continually revises itself in spontaneous narrations of love and death.
