Sunday, February 20, 2011

Akbar Eksir

Honey bees have diabetes
Published 1384

This book of humorous poems is not a bad read, but although it has several readable and funny poems, in general it's more about being silly than writing intelligent satire. The humor is a bit too light and too innocuous to be classified as intellectual social satire in most cases. An exception maybe a poem named "Ferdowsi Square", which depicts the major characters of the Persian Book of Kings, Shahnameh, in undignified situations: as a cigarette seller, an addict, a runaway girl, a street woman. Overall, a pleasant read.

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