Hushang Irani
Hushang Irani (; 1925 in Hamedan – 1973 in Paris) was an Iranian poet, translator, critics, journalist and painter. He is one of the pioneers of "The New Poetry" and surrealism in Iran. The Fighting Cock days. Founded in 1950, "Khorus Jangi" (, The Fighting Cock) was a small artistic group that published a journal by same title. In the beginning, "Khorus Jangi" was not significantly different from other literary journals of the time. A year later, however, "Hushang Irani", the "enfant terrible" of modernist Persian poetry, joined the group. Under his influence, the journal was transformed into a radical modernist  literary journal. It published "Irani"'s poems, which no other literary journal of the day, and even almost no literary critics on those days, would dare to acknowledge as poetry. "Irani" has shrewdly observed and anxiously realized how the potentials that Nima had introduced into Persian poetry were being co-opted: Nima and modernist Persian poetry were in the process of becoming mainstream. Understanding this double edge of youthful tradition, Irani had both praised and condemned Nima. Gallery. From the book "Some Designs" (), Tehran, April 1952