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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems

English

By (author): Forough Farrokhzad

Translated by: Elizabeth T. Gray

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of contemporary world literature. Farrokhzad, as Elizabeth Gray writes in the preface, remains a beacon to artists, especially women and marginalized artists, who seek freedom in all its forms.

This thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokhzads poems includes work from her whole writing life, early to late. Readers will thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of the quotidian; of longing, loss, and desire; of classical reinvention; of lexical variation and sonic beauty; of terrifying wisdom, hope, and grief.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 148g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 206mm
  • Publication Date: 10 May 2022
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811231657

About Forough Farrokhzad

Poet filmmaker screenwriter and painter Forough Farrokhzad (19341967) was born the third of seven children in Mazandaran north of Tehran. Drawn to reading and writing poetry as a child she dropped out of high school to study painting and dressmaking at a technical school. At age sixteen she fell in love with her mothers cousin; they married moved to a provincial town and had a son. During her marriage she worked as a seamstress and wrote the poems of her first collection The Captive (1955). In the fall of that year she divorced her husband relinquished all rights to her son and moved to Tehran. Three more poetry collections followed: The Wall (1956) Rebellion (1958) and Another Birth (1964). She also translated the work of George Bernard Shaw and Henry Miller and made a groundbreaking documentary The House Is Black (1962) about a leper colony in northeastern Iran. Her posthumous collection of late poems Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season was published in 1974. Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. is the author of the poetry collections Salient and Series | India and the translator of Wine and Prayer: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz and Iran: Poems of Dissent.

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