Dick Davis: The Mirror of My Heart

Cover: 9780143135616 | The Mirror of My Heart | A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

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An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first time
From Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from princesses and entertainers to anonymous wives and daughters, The Mirror of My Heart displays the extraordinary breadth of women writing in Persian. The 83 poets included in this collection - many translated here for the first time - traverse a thousand years: from Rabe'eh and her surprisingly sensual writing in the ninth century, to the powerful verse of Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first.

Über den Autor

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.

Zusammenfassung

ACCLAIMED SCHOLAR AND TRANSLATOR OF PERSIAN POETRY: In his introduction, Davis provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

WOMEN PERSIAN POETS ACROSS THE CENTURIES: The volume spans from Medieval poets such as Daughter of Salar; the 14th-century princess Jahan Malek Khatun Iran's first feminist poet, Alam Taj, who composed her poems in secret in the early 20th century; as well as contemporary poets like Pegah Ahmadi (born in 1974), an Iranian political refugee and one of the translators of Sylvia Plath into Persian; and Simin Behbahani, who was exiled and prevented from leaving Iran and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

PUBLISHING ALONGSIDE OTHER DICK DAVIS TRANSLATION: We are publishing The Mirror of My Heart concurrently with Dick Davis's latest Persian translation of what's considered the "Romeo and Juliet of the East," Layla and Majnun.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	352 S.
ISBN-13:	9780143135616
ISBN-10:	0143135619
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Übersetzung:	Davis, Dick
Zusammengestellt:	Davis, Dick
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	193 x 127 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Dick Davis
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.09.2021
Gewicht:	0,252 kg