Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season : selected poems

Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season Selected poems

Furūgh Farrukhzād

Book - 2022

"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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Subjects
Farrukhzād, Furūgh > Translations into English.
Persian poetry > 20th century.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation 2022.
Language
English
Persian
Main Author
Furūgh Farrukhzād (author)
Other Authors
Elizabeth T. Gray, 1952- (translator)
Item Description
"A New Directions paperbook original."
"New Directions paperbook (NDP1530)" -- title page verso.
Physical Description
xiii, 107 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106).
ISBN
9780811231657
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Translator's Introduction
  • From Captive (1955)
  • Captive
  • From Wall (1956)
  • Sin
  • Lost
  • Grief-Worshipper
  • Wall
  • From Rebellion (1958)
  • God's Rebellion
  • Knot
  • Return
  • From Far Away
  • Much Later
  • From Another Birth (1964)
  • Those Days
  • The Sun Comes Out
  • On the Soil
  • The Wind Will Carry Us
  • In the Green Waters of Summer
  • Realizing
  • Love Poem
  • Border Walls
  • Friday
  • Wind-Up Doll
  • My Lover
  • In the Cold Streets of Night
  • In a Never-Ending Twilight
  • Earthly Verses
  • Gift
  • Green Illusion
  • Pair
  • The Victory of the Garden
  • Rose
  • The Bird Was Just a Bird
  • O Jeweled Land
  • I Will Greet the Sun Again
  • Another Birth
  • Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (1974)
  • Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
  • After You
  • Window
  • I Pity the Garden
  • Someone Who Is Like No One
  • Only the Sound Remains
  • The Bird Is Mortal
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This excellent assemblage of the late Farrokhzad's selected work brings the yearning and sensual lyricism of the modernist Iranian poet to a contemporary audience. Gray's introduction provides useful context on Farrokhzad's tragically short life, while her curation captures much of the arc and scope of Farrokhzad's poetic imagination over the course of the poet's prolific writing career. Early poems announce Farrokhzad's dissatisfaction with repressive mid-20th-century Iranian culture: "Weary of zealous restraint, at midnight, in Satan's bed/ I would seek shelter in the descent to a fresh sin." Insistence on her own mortality runs through her oeuvre, "I kissed the cross of my fate/ on the hills of my execution," while she continues to chafe under the strictures of society, "My body no longer fit the cocoon of my loneliness." Full of powerful and often revolutionary feminist spirit, Farrokhzad's bold verse should find new readers thanks to this skillful translation. (Apr.)

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