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Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Ebrahim Golestan featured in Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Ebrahim Golestan featured in “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad,” tr. by Sholeh Wolpé.

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée, from Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "In the dark"

[Text ID: "In the sorrowful sky / a star was burning / a star was falling / a star was dying"]

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "Sin"

[Text ID: "In that quiet vacant dark / I looked into his mystic eyes, / found such longing that my heart / fluttered impatient in my breast. / In that quiet vacant dark / I sat beside him punch-drunk, / his lips released desire on mine, / grief unclenched my crazy heart."]

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Summer's Green Waters”, Sin

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from Another Birth and Other Poems; “In the Cold Streets of Night”

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— Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé, Sin (2007)

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; “The Sun Rises"

[Text ID: "Look. Sparks ignite me, / flames engulf me, / carry me high, / trap me in the sky. / Look how my universe / now streams with shooting stars."]

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Forugh Farrokhzad, “Knot” from Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (trans. Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.)  

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Window”, Sin

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from Another Birth and Other Poems; “The Wind Will Take Us Away”

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— Forugh Farrokhzad, Reborn (1964), tr. Sholeh Wolpé (2007)

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; “Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season"

[Text ID: “I am cold. / I am cold and I think I will never feel warm again.”]

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from Another Birth and Other Poems; “In the Cold Streets of Night”

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— Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (2007)

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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; “The Sun Rises"

[Text ID: "You came from far, far away, / from the realm of perfume and light,"]