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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems
In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough...
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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."
Author: Forough Farrokhzad
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.33w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780811231657
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2022
About the Author
Farrokhzad, Forough: - Poet, filmmaker, screenwriter, and painter, Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967) 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 mother's 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.Gray, Elizabeth T.: - 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.
This thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokhzad'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.
Author: Forough Farrokhzad
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.33w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780811231657
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2022
About the Author
Farrokhzad, Forough: - Poet, filmmaker, screenwriter, and painter, Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967) 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 mother's 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.Gray, Elizabeth T.: - 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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