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Faces of Love

Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

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Faces of Love

By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, Obayd-e Zakani
Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature

Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of South-Central Iran, and all three drew support from arts-loving rulers during a time better known for its violence than its creative brilliance. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered "our finest translator of Persian poetry" (The Times Literary Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart.

"Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time.... Faces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems." (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)

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A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2013

"Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time…Faces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems." (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)

"Davis has done something I’d thought impossible: given us an Englished Hafez whose verses retain an intimation of what all the fuss is about...this anthology is a revelation." (Michael Robbins, The Chicago Tribune)

"Radiant.... Davis expertly elucidates the conventions these poets worked within and played against." (A. E. Stallings, The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year)

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