The Death of Colour

The Death of Colour is a luminous collection of English translations of Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry by Michael M. Khazabi. In these meditative works, Sepehri, one of Iran’s most celebrated modern poets, explores the meeting place of silence and sound, decay and renewal, solitude and awakening. Through landscapes of desert, dusk, and dream, Sepehri’s voice moves with quiet intensity, revealing how beauty survives within impermanence and how light persists even in the heart of night. His language, spare and musical, gives form to the unseen: the breath of wind over an empty valley, the hush before dawn, the human heart learning to listen. These translations preserve the stillness and clarity of Sepehri’s Persian, offering English readers the calm rhythm and contemplative grace that define his verse. Together, the poems form a timeless meditation on being, a journey inward through silence where meaning still breathes.