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Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967), the most famous woman in the history of Persian literature, was born in Tehran to a middle class family of seven children. She attended public schools through the ninth grade; thereafter, she received some training in sewing and painting and got married at the age of 17. Her only child, the boy to whom "A Poem For You" was adddressed to, was born a year later. Within two years her marriage failed, and Farrokhzad gave up her son to her ex-husband's family in order to pursue her calling in poetry and an independent lifestyle. She voiced her feelings in the mid-1950s about conventional marriage, the plight of women in Iran, and her own situation in poems such as "The Captive", "The Wedding Band", "Call to Arms", and "To My Sister".
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Unpublished Portraits of Forough Farrokhzad " |
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