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Graduating in June 1945, he returned to Kāšān and in December found employment at Kāšān’s Office of Education, where he met the poet Mošfeq Kāšāni who familiarized him with Persian prosody and encouraged him to write poetry. In 1966 he published “Mosāfer”, again in Āraš, and translations of hymns from the Rig Veda.

In 1968 Sepehri published “Ḥajm-e sabz.” Its release coincided with the opening of his exhibit at Seyḥun Gallery in February 1968.

In one of his works called 'Footsteps of Water' or 'The Water's Footfall', Sepehri introduces himself, his family, and his way of thinking in a poetic form. This same year he participated in a number of group exhibits and published his third book of poetry, “The life of dreams”, with one of his own paintings on the cover.

In 1954 Sepehri took a position in the Office of Fine Arts and started to teach at the School of Fine Arts.

Back in Tehran Sepehri had his first solo exhibit at Reżā ʿAbbāsi Gallery and a group show at The Export Bank of Iran. Behrooz. While living in the capital, he worked for eight months for the then Anglo-Persian Oil Company and became more immersed in the works of Nimā Yušij, as well as Fereydun Tavallali. He was buried in Kashan.

His mother loved poetry and art, too. His paintings are about nature; one of them was sold in Tehran in 2018.

After a brief return to Tehran he was back in Manhattan by mid-May 1971 for a solo exhibit at Elain Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, which opened on 10 July. This would be his last government or public service position.

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Sepehri, Paridokht. After finishing his education, he was employed in an oil company, which he left after 8 months.

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Sohrab Sepehri was a notable Iranian poet and a painter.

‘Water’s Footfall: a poem from the Persian’ in E.S. Shaffer (ed), Volume 8, Comparative Criticism .

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