SECOND BOOK OF POETRY
Published in 1964
It includes two poems in čhārpāra, many more in Nimaic meters, and several in free
verses. The first of such poems in this collection ("Ḥofra," Atashkade-ye ḵamush, 1964,
pp. 109-11) dated back to 1946.
Themes of the collection include mostly motifs from pre-Islamic mythological (e.g.,
"Sorudi
bara-ye Mitra," pp. 27-30), fear of death and loneliness (e.g., "Entezar," pp. 35-38), and
socio-cultural impediments (e.g., "Tafriḥgah-e ma," pp. 89-91).
Aḥmad Shamloo ranked Sheybani as the very first practitioner of the genre of free verse
in Iran (Shamloo).
Moḥammad Ali Sepanlu, in his commentary, while keeping a critical outlook on the
collection, credited Sheybani as an avant-garde poet of yesterday who is looking even
more modern today (Sepanlu).
