Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
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.
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Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
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.
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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610753838
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 10/01/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 167
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Sholeh Wolpé is the author of The Scar Saloon and Rooftops of Tehran. Her poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many publications.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS FOREWORD WHY FORUGH ? ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FORUGH FARROKHZAD (1935-1967) SELECTED EARLY POEMS Sin Grief On Loving The Ring Captive Bathing The Wall Lost Later The Return Rebellious God SELECTED POEMS FROM REBORN Wind-Up Doll Those Days The Sun Rises The Wind Will Blow Us Away Summer’s Green Waters Forgive Her Insight Border Walls Friday In Night’s Cold Streets In an Eternal Dusk Earthly Verses The Gift A Visitation at Night Green Phantasm Mates Inaugurating the Garden My Lover Red Rose The Bird, Was Just a Bird O Bejeweled Realm . . . I Will Greet the Sun Again Reborn LET US BELIEVE IN THE DAWN OF THE COLD SEASON Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season After You Window I Pity the Garden Someone Like No One Only Voice Remains The Bird Shall One Day Die NOTES , VOCABULARY, AND EXPLANATIONS Translator's Note Dreaming a Poem Translating Itself - An After-Note Confession A Brief Overview of Iran's Political Scene 1941 - 1967 Notes on "O Bejeweled Realm..." Vocabulary Recommended Reading

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Alica Ostriker

The shock of Farrokhzad's poetry is the shock of purity, of ice water, of a corpse rotting in broad daylight. The purity is that of her relentless intensity. . . . [Wolpé's] translations are hypnotic in their beauty and force. This book will be treasured by readers who crave not a clash of cultures but a connection. (Alica Ostriker, From the Foreword)

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