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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems | Forough Farrokhzad
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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 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.
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A beautiful collection of strange, somber poems from this famous Iranian poet. I love translations because it lets you tap into a culture vastly different from your own. It‘s like traveling in that sense: a significant reminder of how large and varied the world is.

There is a certain brilliance to the understanding that the ideas will come off skewed. And just like traveling, you‘re not getting the full scope. It‘s fun though.

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I am you, you
and the one who loves
and the one who within herself
suddenly discovers a vague bonding
to a thousand things loaded with unknown
strangeness
and I am all the fierce lust of the earth
that pulls all waters into itself
to make all fields fertile