Book record
Sin
Forugh Farrokhzad
Translated from Persian by Sholeh Wolpe
Sin by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated from Persian by Sholeh Wolpe and published by University of Arkansas Press, is a book rooted in Iran. Farrokhzad’s Sin, translated by Sholeh Wolpe, foregrounds one of the most charged words in any moral vocabulary. The book should be read for how that charge becomes lyric energy: transgression, intimacy, shame, pleasure, and revolt all tightening inside the line. Farrokhzad’s power is not merely that she writes about forbidden feeling, but that she gives feeling a voice difficult to domesticate. Wolpe’s translation opens that voice to English readers without making its danger polite. The description should leave room for mystery, because the best entrance to a poem is often a felt disturbance before explanation.
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Language
- Persian
- Country
- Iran