The Mirror of My Heart
A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
$26.92
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2021
Summary
An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.
The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143135616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143135619 |
| Author: | Dick Davis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 16mm |
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In every respect, The Mirror of My Heart is outstanding. Reading it one discovers a whole tradition of love poetry, epigram and elegy, movingly brought into English. Most important now, this anthology reminds us how much we all share the same joys, the same sorrows – Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *
About The Author
Dick Davis
Dick Davis is a translator, a poet, and a scholar of Persian literature who has published more than 20 books. He is currently a professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His translations from Persian include The Lion and the Throne, Fathers and Sons, and Sunset of Empire- Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, vols. I, II, III.
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