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- Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
For the first time, the work of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad is being brought to English-speaking readers through the perspective of a translator who is a poet in her own right, fluent in both Persian and English and intimately familiar with each culture. Sin includes the entirety of Farrokhzad's last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most enduring book, Reborn, and selections from her earlier work and creates a collection that is true to the meaning, the intention, and the music of the original poems. Farrokhzad was the most significant female Iranian poet of the twentieth century, as revolutionary as Russia's Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva and America's Plath and Sexton. She wrote with a sensuality and burgeoning political consciousness that pressed against the boundaries of what could be expressed by a woman in 1950s and 1960s Iran. She paid a high price for her art, shouldering the disapproval of society and her family, having her only child taken away, and spending time in mental institutions. Farrokhzad died in a car accident in 1967 at the age of thirty-two. Sin is a tribute to the work and life of this remarkable poet.
Table of Contents
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- Why Forugh?
- p. xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xii
- Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967)—A Brief Biography
- pp. xvi-xxxi
- SELECTED EARLY POEMS
- The Return
- pp. 18-20
- Rebellious God
- pp. 21-22
- SELECTED POEMS FROM REBORN
- Wind-Up Doll
- pp. 25-27
- Those Days
- pp. 28-31
- The Sun Rises
- pp. 32-33
- The Wind Will Blow Us Away
- pp. 34-35
- Summer’s Green Waters
- pp. 36-38
- Forgive Her
- pp. 39-40
- Border Walls
- pp. 43-45
- In Night’s Cold Streets
- pp. 47-48
- In an Eternal Dusk
- pp. 49-52
- Earthly Verses
- pp. 53-56
- A Visitation at Night
- pp. 58-62
- Green Phantasm
- pp. 63-65
- Inaugurating the Garden
- pp. 67-68
- O Bejeweled Realm . . .
- pp. 73-77
- LET US BELIEVE IN THE DAWN OF THE COLD SEASON
- I Pity the Garden
- pp. 100-103
- Someone Like No One
- pp. 104-107
- Only Voice Remains
- pp. 108-110
- NOTES , VOCABULARY, AND EXPLANATIONS
- pp. 113-134
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610753838
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289483
MARC Record
OCLC
607634595
Pages
167
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No