| Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems Contributor(s): Farrokhzad, Forough (Author), Gray, Elizabeth T. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811231658 ISBN-13: 9780811231657 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 891.551 |
| LCCN: 2021047417 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.33" W x 8.07" (0.31 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. As the poet and translator Elizabeth Gray has written in the introduction to this landmark translation: "In a country where for centuries women have lived silent, diminished, and in the shadow of their men, Forough-al-zaman Farrokhzad broke all the rules... The best of her work can stand with any poem written by any poet in any culture at any time. She remains a beacon to artists, especially women and marginalized artists, who seek freedom in all its forms." This thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokzhad's 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. "My wish is for Iranian women to be free and equal to men. I am fully aware that my sisters in this country suffer from men's injustices, and I use half of my art to articulate their pain and anguish." --Forough Farrokhzad |