Time Lost is Diana Darab’s debut collection of poetry. Originally written in English, the author later decided to translate the poems and release a bilingual collection. Some of the Farsi translations are not entirely faithful to the original versions; the author has taken the liberty to render the sense of some verses rather than individual words. The Poems reflect on time, love and loss. Some of the poems have elegiac tone.

Diana Darab was born in Arak, a small city in Iran. She completed her undergraduate studies in Tehran and came to California for her graduate studies. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Riverside and the title of her dissertation is The Rhetoric of Intertextuality and Doubtful Authority: A Comparative Study of William Faulkner, Houshang Golshiri and Alain Robbe-Grillet. She gave a lecture about her dissertation to the program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University that can be found on YouTube.