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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 forms." This
thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokhzad's
poems includes work from her whole writing life, early to late.
Readers will thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of the
quotidian; of longing, loss, and desire; of classical reinvention;
of lexical variation and sonic beauty; of terrifying wisdom, hope,
and grief.
In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray
writes, "This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that
took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by
the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the choed ritual,
the core 'severance' practice of a lineage founded by Machik
Lapdroen, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint."
Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and
traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground
of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading
"not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries;
contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information
and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and
artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical
planning." Out of this material, through a process of collage,
convergence, and ritual choed visualization, Gray has composed a
spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell
hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is
salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing,
protected from harm.
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