Forugh Farrokhzad

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Enough imitating men. Don’t be afraid. Flee from the mold into which they have forced you. Release yourselves and without any temerity speak about your dreams, your nightmares, your pain and suffering. Speak of your dreams and be your true selves. --Translated by @Sholeh_Wolpe

@wwborders Campus is launching resources to about Iranian literature, featuring texts by 16 Iranian writers, including poet @ForughPoet, novelists @AbdohSalar & Amir Ahmadi Arian, journalist Habibe Jafarian & cartoonist @ManaNeyestani, find out more here: ow.ly/UxjQ50Eatn0

"I sensed my skin crack from love’s dilating joy" For your Valentine's Day reading, here's Forugh Farrokhzad's poem "Connection," translated from Persian by @Sholeh_Wolpe. bit.ly/3rWHRV1

A sampling of poems from "Sin" farrokhzadpoems.com/poems/

No one thinks of the flowers / No one wants to believe that the garden is dying/ that its heart has swollen in the heat of this sun ... sponsored by @wwborders youtu.be/Kjl3GA-GVKg

In life one should laugh at those who gossip and think of them as pumpkins.

From Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

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“Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic” lithub.com/reading-farrok… via @lithub r

We're loving this performance of Forugh Farrokhzad poems in Persian and English by poet @Sholeh_Wolpe and musician Sahba Motalelbi. youtube.com/watch?v=nukKRC…

2021 advice: Preserve the memory of flight

@TheAmScho I speak from the deep end of night. Of end of darkness I speak. I speak of deep night ending. O kind friend, if you visit my house, bring me a lamp, cut me a window, so I can gaze at the swarming alley of the fortunate. – trans. Sholeh Wolpé

This week's poem, by the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, comes to us from a listener who wrote that "the world just needs to know more about her and her poems." theamericanscholar.org/wind-up-doll-b…

@IranianWin @WomenRead @TheAmScho @womenwritersnet @Sholeh_Wolpe @ForoughPoetry @WomenWriters I speak from the deep end of night. Of end of darkness I speak. I speak of deep night ending. O kind friend, if you visit my house, bring me a lamp, cut me a window, so I can gaze at the swarming alley of the fortunate. –From Sin: Selected Poems, trans. Sholeh Wolpé

The best thing is arriving at a glance derived from a #Love❤️accident. #ForughFarrokhzad #quotes Image via Iranian.com @WomenRead @TheAmScho #IranianWomen #فروغ_فرخزاد

One can cunningly belittle every perplexing puzzle. Alone, occupy oneself with crosswords, content with unimportant words, yes, unimportant letters, no more than five or six. (from Windup Doll. translated by: @Sholeh_Wolpe )

Watch new film by @MakezRikweda about Forugh Farrokhzad : Only Voice Remains vimeo.com/316516478

What do these two books have in common?

Swelled corpses pen the morgue’s thoughts, the cad hides his yellowness in the dark, and the cockroach … ah when the cockroach harangues, why should I stop? Trans. by #sholehwolpe @voice_film