Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the University of Oxford, UK and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford, UK. He has published widely on premodern Persian lyric poetry, women writers of the Qajar era, and twentieth-century Iranian poets. His most recent book, Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance, and Patronage in Fourteenth-century Iran (I.B. Tauris, 2019), won the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award in 2020.

Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian women's writing, and post revolutionary Iranian cinema. Among her publications are Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity (2015), Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (2001), the English translation of the late Taghi Modarressi's last novel, The Virgin of Solitude (2008), and Oriental Responses to the West (1990).

Preface to the Second Edition:
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh.

Introduction to the First Edition:
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh.

Chapter 1: "Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad."
Homa Katouzian.

Chapter 2: "Men and Women Together: Love, Marriage, and Gender in Forugh Farrokhzad's Asir."
Marta Simidchieva.

Chapter 3: "Places of Confinement, Liberation, and Decay: The Home and the Garden in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad."
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw.

Chapter 4: "Forugh Farrokhzad's Romance with Her Muse."
Rivanne Sandler.

Chapter 5: "Bewildered Mirror: Mirror, Self, and World in the Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad."
Leila Rahimi Bahmany.

Chapter 6: "Personal Rebellion and Social Revolt in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad: Challenging the Assumptions."
Kamran Talattof.

Chapter 7: "Garden in Motion: the Esthetic of the Space Between."
Michael Beard.

Chapter 8: "Forugh Farrokhzad's Apocalyptic Visions."
Sirous Shamisa.

Chapter 9: "Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black."
Nasrin Rahimieh.

Chapter 10: "The House is Black: A Timeless Visual Essay."
Maryam Ghorbankarimi.

Chapter 11: "Forugh Farrokhzad as Translator of Modern German Poetry: observations about the anthology, Marg-e man ruzi."
Nima Mina.

Chapter 12: "Alien Rebirths of 'Another Birth'."
M. R. Ghanoonparvar.

Chapter 13: "Re-Writing Forugh: Writers, Intellectuals, Artists, and Farrokhzad's Legacy in the Iranian Diaspora."
Persis M. Karim.

Chapter 14: "Cargo, Chickpeas, and Cobblestones: The Textures of Memory in Forugh Farrokhzad's Travelogue Dar diyari digar."
Marie Ostby.

Chapter 15: "Of Stones and Mirrors: The Fragmented Self in the Poetry of Layla Sarahat Rowshani (1958-2004)."
Wali Ahmadi.