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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season : Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811231658

ISBN-139780811231657

eBay Product ID (ePID)16057239110

Product Key Features

Book TitleLet Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season : Selected Poems

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen Authors, Middle Eastern, General, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorForough Farrokhzad

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-047417

ReviewsIran's leading literary journal, Sokhan , wrote after her funeral, 'Forough is perhaps the first female writer in Persian literature to express the emotions and romantic feelings of the feminine gender in her verse with distinctive frankness and elegance, for which reason she has inaugurated a new chapter in Persian poetry. In every culture you have cultural icons, like Shakespeare in Britain. Farrokhzad was like that for contemporary Iran, someone who formed the identity of our contemporariness., "In her translation, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. sought to capture "as much of the beauty, strangeness, ferocity, and stillness of the original." She has done so, and more, bringing the best of Farrokhzad into the light, where she is easily recognized to be as relevant and fresh today as she was sixty years ago.", Iran's leading literary journal, Sokhan, wrote after her funeral, 'Forough is perhaps the first female writer in Persian literature to express the emotions and romantic feelings of the feminine gender in her verse with distinctive frankness and elegance, for which reason she has inaugurated a new chapter in Persian poetry., Elizabeth T. Gray's new literary translations offer the unstoppable voice of world-class poet Forough Farrokhzad to English speakers and broaden the horizon for comparative readings of the poet's work, a treasured joy unto itself., In every culture you have cultural icons, like Shakespeare in Britain. Farrokhzad was like that for contemporary Iran, someone who formed the identity of our contemporariness., Farrokhzad wrote poetry on the horizon of working for a civil society in which men's freedom was not complete without women's freedom, and for a life in which the soul's freedom was not separate from the body's--individually, socially, and culturally. Her poetry is a space that radiates aspiration and exaltation, a space ablaze with vitality, desire, and beauty., Innocence has given way to experience. The poet commands her emotions rather than surrendering to them., Joy, rage, despair, transcendence--Farrokhzad's poems, like the life from which they were often drawn, contain multitudes. In Elizabeth T. Gray's assured translations, each poem is tightly conceived and elegantly modulated, the language precise, the voice as fresh and vivid as Farrokhzad's own. A vital contribution to Farrokhzad's legacy., Living through a period that promised more freedom than it offered, she found a literary form to register its contradictions. Her poetry embraces pleasure in the face of social censure, seeks a genuine spirituality while rebuking the cant of tradition.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal891.5513

SynopsisIn the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a feminist trailblazer of Iranian literature and as an iconoclastic figure of contemporary world literature. As Mehdi Jami writes in the Guardian, "In every culture you have cultural icons, like Shakespeare in Britain. Farrokhzad was like that for contemporary Iran, someone who formed the identity of our contemporariness." Thoughtfully curated and deftly translated by the poet Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., this selected poems gathers work from Farrokhzad's whole writing life, early to late, including the entirety of her posthumous book Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season, which gives this collection its name. Readers can thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of desire and loss, of classical reinvention, of lexical variation and sonic beauty, of terrifying wisdom, hope, and grief. Book jacket., 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." 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.

LC Classification NumberPK6561.F264L48 2022