Armen Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars, published in 2024 by Tin House (US) and Corsair (UK). His poems and translations from the Persian appear in Poetry, The Hopkins Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Armen grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Burnt Oak
With every salacious squeeze of one’s hand, for no reason one can cry ah, how blessed, how happy I am! — Forough Farrokhzad, “Wind-Up Doll,” translated by Sholeh Wolpé I. […]