American poet Robert Frost said shrewdly that poetry was what got left behind in translation, which suggests a criterion of almost scientific refinement: when in doubt, translate; whatever comes through is prose, the remainder is poetry. And yet to even so acute a definition the obvious exception is a startling and a formidable one: some of the greatest poetry in the world is in the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible, which is not only a translation but also, as to its appearance in print, identifiable neither with verse nor with prose in English but rather with a cadence owing something to both.
Oktay Baraheni, Reza Baraheni’s son, announced on his Instagram page that his father died in Canada.She declined to mention the death cause of his father Reza Baraheni. Reza Baraheni was born in Tabriz in 1935. At the age of 22, he received a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Tabriz University. Then, he went to Turkey and returned after receiving a Ph.D. degree in his field and began teaching at the university.
