{"product_id":"let-us-believe-in-the-beginning-of-the-cold-season-selected-poems-9780811231657","title":"Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems","description":"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.\" \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarrokhzad, Forough:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Poet, filmmaker, screenwriter, and painter, \u003cstrong\u003eForough Farrokhzad\u003c\/strong\u003e (1934-1967) was born the third of seven children in Mazandaran, north of Tehran. Drawn to reading and writing poetry as a child, she dropped out of high school to study painting and dressmaking at a technical school. At age sixteen she fell in love with her mother's cousin; they married, moved to a provincial town, and had a son. During her marriage she worked as a seamstress and wrote the poems of her first collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Captive\u003c\/em\u003e (1955). In the fall of that year, she divorced her husband, relinquished all rights to her son, and moved to Tehran. Three more poetry collections followed: \u003cem\u003eThe Wall\u003c\/em\u003e (1956), \u003cem\u003eRebellion\u003c\/em\u003e (1958), and \u003cem\u003eAnother Birth\u003c\/em\u003e (1964). She also translated the work of George Bernard Shaw and Henry Miller, and made a groundbreaking documentary, \u003cem\u003eThe House Is Black\u003c\/em\u003e (1962), about a leper colony in northeastern Iran. Her posthumous collection of late poems \u003cem\u003eLet Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1974.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGray, Elizabeth T.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth T. Gray, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eSalient\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSeries India\u003c\/em\u003e, and the translator of \u003cem\u003eWine and Prayer: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIran: Poems of Dissent.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605418578194,"sku":"9780811231657","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_540e8e3f-2176-4699-947a-63ed83d924f3.jpg?v=1732276004","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/let-us-believe-in-the-beginning-of-the-cold-season-selected-poems-9780811231657","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}