Majmoueye Kamele Ashare Forough Farrokhzad (Complete Poems of Forough Farokhzad)

This edition is a complete collection of the poems of Forough Farrokhzad (1935 - 1967), the celebrated Iranian poet and film maker. It collates Farrokhzad's five poetry books in Farsi: assir, divar, ossyan, tavalodi digar, and iman biyavarim be aghaze fasle sard

Author: Forough Farrokhzad
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/04/2017
Pages: 646
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.43d
ISBN: 9781547164745
Language: Persian

About the Author
Forugh Farrokhzad was born in Tehran, she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girls' school for the manual arts. At age sixteen she was married to Parviz Shapour, a satirist. A year later, she bore her only child, a son named Kamyar Shapour. In 1954, Farrokhzad and her husband divorced; Parviz won custody of the child. She moved back to Tehran to write poetry and published her first volume, entitled The Captive, in 1955. Farrokhzad, a female divorcee writing controversial poetry with a strong feminine voice, became the focus of much negative attention and open disapproval. In 1958 she spent nine months in Europe. After returning to Iran, in search of a job she met film-maker and writer Ebrahim Golestan, who reinforced her own inclinations to express herself and live independently. She published two more volumes, The Wall and The Rebellion before traveling to Tabriz to make a film about Iranians affected by leprosy. This 1962 documentary film titled The House is Black won several international awards. During the twelve days of shooting, she became attached to Hossein Mansouri, the child of two lepers. She adopted the boy and brought him to live at her mother's house. In 1964 she published Another Birth. Her poetry at that time varied significantly from previous Iranian poetic conventions. On February 13, 1967, Farrokhzad died in a car accident at age thirty-two. Her poem Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season was published posthumously, and is considered by some to be one of the best-structured modern poems in Persian. Farrokhzad's poetry was banned for more than a decade after the Islamic Revolution. A brief literary biography of Forough, Michael Hillmann's A lonely woman: Forough Farrokhzad and her poetry, was published in 1987. Farzaneh Milani's work Veils and words: the emerging voices of Iranian women writers (1992) included a chapter about her. Nasser Saffarian has directed three documentaries about her life: The Mirror of the Soul (2000), The Green Cold (2003), and Summit of the Wave (2004). In February 2017, on the occasion of 50 years after Farrokhzad's death, the 94-year-old Golestan broke his silence about his relationship with Forough, speaking to the Guardian's Saeed Kamali Dehghan. "I rue all the years she isn't here, of course, that's obvious," he said. "We were very close, but I can't measure how much I had feelings for her. How can I? In kilos? In metres?"


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