Œuvre Poétique Complète

Forough Farrokhzad's intimate poetry, a reflection of his life, expresses his desire to embark on the road to emancipation by rehabilitating his body and achieving autonomy in a society dominated by millennia of authoritarian political regimes, omnipresent religion and constraining social conventions.
"His successive collections are the exact novel of his life," writes French philosopher Christian Jambet, "They follow its course. Not that of a soul escaping from the prison of the body, but of a body alive with the spirit of poetry escaping from the prison of the soul, from the spiritual prison made of the values of marriage and the respectable peace they propose."