SABZEVARI POETRY MANIFESTO OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTION: POET TEHRAN -- The 37-year-old poet Fazel Nazari has said that Hamid Sabzevari’s poetry acted as the manifesto of the revolutionaries during the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Nazari made the remarks during a ceremony organized by Tehran’s Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum on Tuesday evening to honor 91-year-old Sabzevari who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. “Even if we hold a thousand other ceremonies to honor Mr. Sabzevari, we, as well as the current state of revolutionary art, will still remain indebted to him,” he added. “The revolutionaries had no manifesto or statement at the outbreak of the revolution. The best statement of the revolution was deeply embedded in our literature and the poems of literati such as Mr. Sabzevari,” stated Nazari whose works have been praised at many of Iran’s official cultural events. Sabzevari attended the ceremony in a wheelchair pushed by his son. He was ...
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