Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems

A ravishing new translation of Iran’s trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection

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 a...