Sholeh Wolpé 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.
"Farrokhzad is compared to Akhmatova and Plath. She's their peer,
and this is a magnificent book of beautifully wrought, distinctly
modern poems."
--Robert Covelli, The New Mexican Magazine
"Poetic modernism came to Iran as late as the 1960s, when
Farrokhzad (1935-1967) streaked across the literary horizon. . . .
Of course, she became a scandal, one that endures to this day. . .
. [T]he poems' long lines and musical repetitions sweep the reader
away as effectively as any American projective verse."
--Booklist
"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
"Translated with deep admiration by Sholeh Wolp�, a poet fluent in
both Persian and English, these lucid translations capture the
absolute ferocity and passion that have made Forugh Farrokhzad so
beloved and so infamous."
--American Poet
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