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Faces of Love - Hafez & the Poets of Shiraz (Paperback)
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Faces of Love - Hafez & the Poets of Shiraz (Paperback)
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A giant of world literature, an eloquent princess, a dissolute
satirist -- these are the three voices translated from
fourteenth-century Persian by Dick Davis in Faces of Love.
Together, they represent one of the most remarkable literary
flowerings of any era. All three -- Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and
Obayd-e Zakani -- lived in Shiraz, a provincial capital in
south-central Iran, and all drew support from arts-loving rulers at
a time better known for invasions and political violence. Love was
a frequent subject of their work: spiritual as well as secular, in
varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart. They could
hardly have been more different. Hafez -- destined to win fame
throughout the world -- wrote lyrical poetry that was subtle,
elusive, and rich in ambiguity. Jahan -- largely forgotten until
recent decades -- was a privileged princess who could evoke
passion, longing and heartbreak with uncanny power. (As Davis says:
"To have this extraordinary poets fascinating and often very
beautiful poems emerge from six hundred years of virtual oblivion
seems almost miraculous") Obayd -- a satirist and truth-teller --
celebrated every pleasure of the flesh in language of astonishing
and occasionally obscene honesty.
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