{"product_id":"sin","title":"Sin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Poetic modernism came to Iran as late as the 1960s, when Farrokhzad (1935-67) streaked across the literary horizon. Rebellious from childhood, Farrokhzad entered young womanhood as many more were to do in the West a decade later. She insisted on her sexuality and wrote of it rapturously in her earliest poems, which immediately appeal in their celebration of lovemaking, including sexual objectification of the male. Of course, she became a scandal, one that endures to this day. A family member of Wolpé’s, when told that she was translating Farrokhzad, responded, \"Why are you wasting your time on that whore?\" The answer is obvious in the poems, which become more powerfully compelling as they take up the issues of life as a woman in modern Iran, issues that are realized through feelings and predicaments with which any Western reader can sympathize. Meanwhile, the poems’ long lines and musical repetitions sweep the reader away as effectively as any American projective verse (the Whitman to Hart Crane to Ginsberg tradition) or Vicente Huidobro’s Chilean modernist classic \u003cem\u003eAltazor\u003c\/em\u003e (1931).”\u003cem\u003e–Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes the entirety of Farrokhzad’s last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most enduring book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReborn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and selections from her earlier work, and creates a collection that is true to the meaning, the intention, and the music of the original poems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Sholeh Wolpé","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50066485215425,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/5464\/2881\/files\/Sin_Front.png?v=1774049130","url":"https:\/\/www.straybooks.co\/products\/sin","provider":"Stray Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}