In the Shadow of Trees

<p>Between 2006 and 2011 Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895–1960) Hafez Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). In 2015 shortly before his death Kiarostami published two further volumes the thematic anthology <strong>Night</strong> his selections from a variety of classical and contemporary poets. These books are in addition to his three volumes of original verse: <strong>A Wolf on Watch </strong>(2005) <strong>With the Wind </strong>(2006) and <strong>Wind and Leaf </strong>(2011). <strong>In the Shadow of Trees </strong>brings together English translations of all these books.</p>