ENGLISH

The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez

By Robert Bly , Leonard Lewisohn

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0061138843, 9780061138843, 0061138835, 9780061138836, 9780061784880
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
547 kB (559709 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
128\129
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The great Persian poet Hafez is so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. For some fifteen years, esteemed American poet and author Robert Bly has worked with the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn to produce this translation, which for the first time captures Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor, his astonishing range of thought, and his delight in love—enabling English speakers to fully appreciate the true genius of this master of the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry.

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