Sholeh Wolpé

Sholeh Wolpé is a recipient of the PEN/Heim Translation award and the Lois Roth Persian Translation prize as well as the author of three verse collections and two books of translations.

Reborn
By Forugh Farrokhzad
March 2015
Forugh Farrokhzad
Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography All my being is a dark verse that repeats you to the dawn of unfading flowering and growth. I conjured you in my poem with a sigh and grafted you to water, fire…