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Forugh Farrokhzad, Bride of Acacias; Selected Poems translated by Jascha Kessler with Amin Banani; Introduction by Amin Banani; Afterword by Farzaneh Milani (Albany: Caravan Books, 1982). Pp. ix + 158.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Jerome W. Clinton
Affiliation:
Princeton University

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References

1 Hillmann, Michael provides a detailed bibliographical guide to translations that is current through 1975 (Twentieth Century Persian Literature in Translation: A Bibliography. Imperial Embassy of Iran, Cultural Department, Publication No.3, March 21, 1976).Google Scholar Since 1975, several works have been published that are devoted in whole or in part to her poetry. Farzan, Massud, From Kashan to Kalamazoo (Pahlavi University, Shiraz 1976 ?).Google ScholarLiterature East and West, volume xx, numbers 1–4 (1976)Google Scholar edited by Hillmann, M. C.. who also translated ten poems by her and reprinted Karim Emami's translation of “Another Birth” (pages 111–129). An Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry, edited and translated by Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1978),Google Scholar who includes some fourteen poems by Forugh, . New Writing from the Middle East, edited by Hamalian, Leo and Yohannan, John D. (Mentor 1978),Google Scholar which contains translations by Wickens, O. M., Ardavan, Ahmad and Meisami, Julie (pages 375–387).Google ScholarJavadi, Hassan and Sallée, Susan, Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (Albany Press, Emeryville, California, 1981). This is the most comprehensive collection of Forugh's work to appear in English before the present volume, and contains, in addition to extensive notes and commentary, translations from her correspondence, interviews and articles.Google Scholar