If I Were God. by Forough Farokhzad and translated by Meetra Sofia

This is poetry from Iran.

If I Were God. by Forough Farokhzad translated by Meetra Sofia is published by City Lights Books. This is a Book originally written in Persian. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780872864894E12.

If I Were God, by Forough Farrokhzad and translated by Meetra Sofia, is a Persian poetry collection that should be approached with the full intensity Farrokhzad deserves. Farrokhzad is one of the essential modern Iranian poets, a writer of desire, womanhood, spiritual restlessness, and social defiance. The title’s conditional is important: not “I am God,” but “if I were,” a speculative reach toward power, creation, judgment, and impossible freedom. I would read this book as part of Farrokhzad’s larger refusal to make the female voice modest for public comfort. Sofia’s translation brings that voice into English through a title already charged with audacity. This is a book for readers who want poetry that understands longing as theological, erotic, rebellious, and alive.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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