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

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Author / Creator:Farrukhzād, Furūgh, author.
Uniform title:Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season (Compilation)
Imprint:New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
©2022
Description:xiii, 107 pages ; 21 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12731123
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Other authors / contributors:Gray, Elizabeth T., 1952- translator.
ISBN:9780811231657
0811231658
Notes:"A New Directions paperbook original."
"New Directions paperbook (NDP1530)" -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106).
Summary:"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"--