At last in English is a wide selection from the great Persian poet Hafez, so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his "Divan" close at hand. When Robert Bly and Coleman Barks visited Iran, they heard schoolchildren singing Hafez poems at his graveside. For some fifteen years, the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn has worked with Robert Bly to produce this translation, which for the first time carries into English Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor directed at the mullahs, his astonishing range of thought, and the delight of his love poems. A master of the "ghazal" form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry, Hafez may be considered as Rumi's wild younger brother, and is now translated into an English that helps us understand his true genius.
At last in English is a wide selection from the great Persian poet Hafez, so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his "Divan" close at hand. When Robert Bly and Coleman Barks visited Iran, they heard schoolchildren singing Hafez poems at his graveside. For some fifteen years, the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn has worked with Robert Bly to produce this translation, which for the first time carries into English Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor directed at the mullahs, his astonishing range of thought, and the delight of his love poems. A master of the "ghazal" form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry, Hafez may be considered as Rumi's wild younger brother, and is now translated into an English that helps us understand his true genius.
Imprint | HarperCollinsPublishers |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2009 |
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Authors | Hafiz, Robert Bly, Leonard Lewisohn |
Format | Electronic book text |
Pages | 128 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-06-178493-4 |
Barcode | 9780061784934 |
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LSN | 0-06-178493-1 |