Tag Archives: Forugh Farrokhzad

Let it go on: South Poetry, summer/fall 2018, fall/winter 2019

28th November 2021The Library of the FutureAlphabet Collection, Cecilia Vicuña, Forugh Farrokhzad, Marina Fokidis, South as a State of Mind, Wisława SzymborskaMinus Plato

Wisława Szymborska Forugh Farrokhzad I am you, you and the one who loves and the one who suddenly finds a vague connection within herself with thousands of unknown, unfamiliar things. – Forough Farrokhzad ‘Sin’, from ‘Forough Farrokhzad: Poet of Modern Iran’ (I.B. Tauris: London, 2010), p. 17. Cecilia Vicuña A sound birthing its own death. – […]

One Window into the Black Colony

19th September 2021Uncategorizeddocumenta 14, EMST, Forough Farrokhzad, Forugh Farrokhzad, House is Black, sair goetz, The black colonyMinus Plato

I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. It is that vague time between the COVID-19 lock-down and the great reopening. With the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery on my mind, I scribble the following oddly formed questions into my notebook: what position is left for, or forced upon you, […]