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Rebirth
Poems by
Foroogh Farrokhzaad
Translated from the Persian by David Martin
 Foroogh
Farrokhzaad (1935-67) is the leading feminist of Iran of this century and the greatest
Persian poetess of modern style. A Rebirth [Tavallodi Digar] is a collection of a
woman’s new identity as “woman as lover” rather that “woman as
domestic” in Iran. Of course, as lover, she was also an explorer. Thus Foroogh falls
into the tradition of poet as explorer well exemplified by the French poets Arthur Rimbaud
and Gerard de Nerval. Her significance is in her exploratory capacity for love and life as
an independent woman. A Rebirth represents a breakthrough in woman’s writing in Iran;
female eroticism and passion are explored in a context of the traditional female seclusion
in household activities, finally breaking free from those bounds and bonds.
In the appended poem, "Lets Bring Faith to the Onset of the Cold Season," in her
lament for a dead lover she is said to have predicted her own death from a traffic
accident—at the untimely age of thirty-two. Foroogh’s poetry will stand as a
monument to the human struggle for freedom and meaningful life in the face of the chaos
and kaleidoscope of oppression. Since her death no woman’s voice has risen in Iran to
take Foroogh’s place and no young poetess shows promise of being able to be a voice
of focused eloquence. This is even more so with the advent of the anti-feminist regime of
the Islamic Republic in Iran in 1979.This edition of A Rebirth carries a set of original
illustrations by Azar Hicks relating the life of Iran in Foroogh’s time and a
selection of her poetry in the original Persian language.
Specifications:
1997: xiii+134pp+32pp in Persian. ( 2nd printing)
ISBN:0-939214-30-X(paper):$10.95
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Afsaneh-ha
Divan-e Parvin Etesami [ The Divan of Parvin Etesami]
Homely Touch
Nightingale's Lament
Odes of Hafiz
Rebirth
Wine of Nishapur
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