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Hafez

Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. As with Rumi, modern translations have a strong appeal to today’s readers. Both ardent mystic and lover, Hafez fuses earthly and divine love.

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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

Additional information

Weight 334 g
Dimensions 22 × 22 × 0.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xxv, 100 unnumbered

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

891.5511 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K