Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems (Farrokhzad Forough)(Paperback)

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
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