>she's fantastic. do you own any of her books?

No, actually. . . I've never been able to get my hands on one. And I think it was only recently that web sites dedicated to her started to appear. Seems like for a while you just couldn't find *anything* about her.

>the translation of that poem you posted
>seems very awkward. i saw an excerpt from the same poem on
>iranian.com and it was so much more fluid and lovely. but
>thats not ur fault..just wondering where you got that
>translation from so i can avoid it :)

Yeah, that came from the forughforrokhzad.org website. They also have a version of one of her poems translated as "The Wind Will Take Us" but I much prefer the translations I've seen that have it called "The Wind Will Carry Us".

You might recall that Abbas Kiarostami called one of his films "The Wind Will Carry Us" and I think someone recited the poem in it as well.

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>>Farrokhzad also directed a short film called "The House Is
>>Black".
>is it the one about the leprosy house? sounds like something
>i wouldnt enjoy

lol. Yeah, that's the one. But it's not as bad as you might think as far as leprosy movies go.

Oddly enough, not a lot of works made in the "leprosy genre".