Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season For the Ride Reading her laments and utopias

Reading her laments and utopias

Ogenschijnlijk een gedicht over sterven en de dood

Grotesque fantasies are also occasions for rest and contentment

including poems and images

openly acknowledged and examined

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season For the Ride Reading her laments and utopiasForough Farrokhzad In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of contemporary world literature. Farrokhzad, as Elizabeth Gray writes in the preface, remains a beacon to artists, especially women and marginalized artists, who seek freedom in all its