Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience.
This second edition includes two new chapters which explore a travelogue Farrokhzad wrote during her time in Italy, and an examination of Farrokhzad's influence on the writings of the Afghan female poet Laila Sarahat Rowshani.

Preface to the Second Edition:
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh.

Introduction to the First Edition:
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh.

Chapter 1: "Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad."
Homa Katouzian.

Chapter 2: "Men and Women Together: Love, Marriage, and Gender in Forugh Farrokhzad's Asir."
Marta Simidchieva.

Chapter 3: "Places of Confinement, Liberation, and Decay: The Home and the Garden in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad."
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw.

Chapter 4: "Forugh Farrokhzad's Romance with Her Muse."
Rivanne Sandler.

Chapter 5: "Bewildered Mirror: Mirror, Self, and World in the Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad."
Leila Rahimi Bahmany.

Chapter 6: "Personal Rebellion and Social Revolt in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad: Challenging the Assumptions."
Kamran Talattof.

Chapter 7: "Garden in Motion: the Esthetic of the Space Between."
Michael Beard.

Chapter 8: "Forugh Farrokhzad's Apocalyptic Visions."
Sirous Shamisa.

Chapter 9: "Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black."
Nasrin Rahimieh.

Chapter 10: "The House is Black: A Timeless Visual Essay."
Maryam Ghorbankarimi.

Chapter 11: "Forugh Farrokhzad as Translator of Modern German Poetry: observations about the anthology, Marg-e man ruzi."
Nima Mina.

Chapter 12: "Alien Rebirths of 'Another Birth'."
M. R. Ghanoonparvar.

Chapter 13: "Re-Writing Forugh: Writers, Intellectuals, Artists, and Farrokhzad's Legacy in the Iranian Diaspora."
Persis M. Karim.

Chapter 14: "Cargo, Chickpeas, and Cobblestones: The Textures of Memory in Forugh Farrokhzad's Travelogue Dar diyari digar."
Marie Ostby.

Chapter 15: "Of Stones and Mirrors: The Fragmented Self in the Poetry of Layla Sarahat Rowshani (1958-2004)."
Wali Ahmadi.