Sin : Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
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Winner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize
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.
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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.
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Product details
- Paperback | 166 pages
- 140 x 216 x 11.18mm | 242g
- 01 Sep 2010
- University of Arkansas Press
- Fayetteville, United States
- English
- 1557289484
- 9781557289483
- 36,923
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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.
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"Potent . . . like certain works by Charles Wright or Seamus Heaney [these poems] are meticulously built to be precise and elusive at once. They reach outside of the poet's own experience, beyond her headspace, her gender, her country of origin. Both pensive and urgent, they strive for the universe."
--Lebanon Daily Star
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--Lebanon Daily Star
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About Forugh Farrokhzad
Sholeh Wolpe is the author of The Scar Saloon and Rooftops of Tehran. Her poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many publications.
Alicia Ostriker is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, a two-time National Book Award finalist, and a winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America.
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Alicia Ostriker is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, a two-time National Book Award finalist, and a winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America.
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