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Poems of Madneّs Ali Delshad Tehrani

This book is a collection of poetic and critical texts that confront the intellectual and cultural condition of contemporary life in a deliberately harsh, direct, and non-conformist language. It opens with a violent attack on the author’s own self: a confrontation with fear, imitation, inferiority, and a borrowed way of living. This beginning is not confessional for its own sake, but programmatic: the author does not place himself outside the field of critique.

From this point onward, the texts gradually move away from the self and turn toward a series of figures, roles, and structures that, in today’s world, operate in the name of religion, spirituality, therapy, motivation, art, awareness, and communication, while in practice reproducing conformity, submission, consumption, and intellectual emptiness. These critiques are not written from a position of moral superiority, but from within anger, disgust, and dissatisfaction with the existing condition.

In this book, language is neither ornamental nor consoling. It becomes an instrument of confrontation: against soothing narratives, ready-made solutions, and dominant forms of meaning that are designed less to produce understanding than to anesthetize. The texts consciously refuse reconciliation, consolation, and closure, leaving the reader in a state of unresolved questioning.

This work is written for a reader who does not seek comfort, meaning, or ready answers from literature; for a reader who accepts that a text may be disturbing, resistant, and abrasive, and who does not expect empathy where conflict is necessary. This book is neither an invitation nor a promise. It is the written record of a clear, hostile, and uncompromising position toward the contemporary world.