Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season (Compilation)
Notes:
"A New Directions paperbook original." Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106).
Contents:
The Bird Is Mortal. 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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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