Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems

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

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a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past

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a woman falls asleep on the shoulder of a man she doesn’t know on an airplane

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