Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected PoemsA ravishing new translation of Irans trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection 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

In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born

A masterful literary debut for fans of Salman Rushdie

spending money on a book and being able to read it would seem as likely as a trip to the moon

and political theory of Islam's relationship to the West

and in her translations Rumi's poetry sings and beckons as nowhere else

The two works are somewhat similar inasmuch as they are both short complete commentaries on the Qur’an

Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling

In this rich anthology

Goh Hsiao Mei

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To steal from an old woman

in a state of fear and wonder