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

    By Sholeh Wolpé and Forugh Farrokhzad

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
    ISBN9781610753838
    Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

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    • 4/5
      Really good poems! I felt like I would have appreciated it more if I grew up around that time era. Either way great read.

      Took me longer to read because I only read while at the salon.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book containing really powerful poetry. Stunning. I came away from this book a fan.

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