Modern Iranian Poetry

Classical Iranian poetry is known and appreciated in the West. Scholars like FitzGerald, Brown, Arberry and Nickelson have presented the poetry of Ferdowsi, Khayyam, Rumi and Hafiz, with relative success, in English. Why not Modern Iranian Poetry?

Is that because our modern poems lack the appeal of the classical Persian verse? Or because the previous translations of Iranian new poetry have b...