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Hafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets,
thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi.
Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential in the
West. Interpreted variously as ardent mystic and lover, he fuses
earthly and divine love with an intense constancy as momentously
productive as Dante's courtly adoration for Beatrice. Across
intimidating obstacles of time and culture, Beloved delivers an
accessible yet authentic modern rendering of the Persian originals.
Few translations of Hafez have matched his beauty, musicality and
rich complexity. Combining vigour with ingenuity, Mario Petrucci
reanimates for the English reader all of the moral clarity and
sensual abundance of a spiritual and literary master. 'Petrucci's
adaptations are a delight to read. They are fresh, candid, subtly
humorous, and elegant. They have that audacious and multilayered
richness one finds in the originals. Above all, they are
uncompromising.' - Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director and Chair, Roshan
Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland 'Mario
Petrucci's new versions of Hafez are nuanced and thoughtful,
embracing both the depth and the beauty of the original.' - Sasha
Dugdale, Editor, Modern Poetry in Translation 'Petrucci bases his
engagement with Hafez on a special awareness... Everywhere, his
delicate but probing selection of word and phrase uplifts and
inspires.' - Michael Hakuzan Wenninger, Zen monk
When it comes to those we love, even our most yearned-for states of
union are subject to change. afterlove endures the swarming
devastations of loss as consummately as it enters love's raptures,
ever alive to devotion's flow and ebb. From domestic paean centred
on the beloved, through a father's unabashed affection for his
children, to the sometimes savage realisations of love's
dissolution, these poems succeed in spanning relationship heaven
and hell. Mario Petrucci generates love (and non-love) poetry that
refuses to squint in the glare of experience. With characteristic
candour and inventiveness, whether through light-filled lyric or a
murderous remaking of myth, Petrucci takes us just about everywhere
love can go.
On 26 April, 1986 at 1.23 am, in the cool dark of an early
Saturday, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear complex
exploded. "Heavy Water" is based on eyewitness accounts of the
Chernobyl disaster. Petrucci takes up the challenge confronting
society in every age: to attempt the difficult task of exploring
its most terrible events. His poem unites the concerns of artist,
humanitarian and historian at a common source: the desire not to
forget. This poem stands to remind us that those who have been
exposed to the invisible should never become so.Each segment paints
an intimate picture: some elements of everyday life remain
unchanged, others are profoundly altered. The collection's
recurring motifs of black and white signal how all are silenced,
reduced to anonymity - which in turn engenders fierce solidarity.
Meanwhile, men and machines toil side by side to tackle the
insurmountable. Petrucci's use of scientific and medical
terminology makes his descriptions chillingly precise. In contrast,
we hear, from a deeply personal angle, the simply expressed
accounts of real people who struggle to cope with the enormity of
the disaster. This poem is at once deeply shocking yet pervaded by
an uplifting beauty.
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