ti vâssi - Gil Avaei

ISBN 9789186131104

When writing the Gazels of the collection “ti vassi” (for you) two types of emotion were leading and motivating me through all the years, of exile, immigration: First the annoyance to live exiled from home, a strong feeling which is the fundament for my nostalgic discourse in life. Second the commitment to investigate the mother tongue, recreating and reviving indigenous terms and traditions of “Gileki”, particularly terms and linguistic elements, which are not more known by the younger generations.

The internet encyclopedia Wikipedia cites “Gileki, the language of the people of Gilan (the South region to the Caspian Sea), is a mix of the continuation of the archaic Iranian languages of Indogerman roots with the indigenous languages of the inhabitants of this region before the migration of Arians to North Iran. Many elements of this language is similar to the archaic Iranian languages, for instance the conjugation of verbs and also the indicative seem to be similar to the Pahlevi and Parti languages.”

In the collection of Gazels presented here, I particularly researched and applied terms and elements which seemed to be lost and already forgotten in the language. By doing so I express in the landscape of poetry the happiness and the sorrows of the years gone and of today. (by Gil Avaei)

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