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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door

The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door

Thirty Poems of Hafez

by Leonard Lewisohn and Robert Bly
Hardback
Publication Date: 25/03/2008

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One of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.

There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that the Persians have for Hafez. Children learn to sing Hafez poems in the third grade, and almost every family has a copy of the collected Hafez on the dining room table. Robert Bly and the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn have worked for 15 years on this book of Hafez, the first that carries into English his nimbleness, his outrageous humor, his defenses of the private life in the face of the fundamentalists, and the joy of his love poems. He writes in the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry. This is Rumi's wild younger brother, now brought into an English that makes his genius visible.

ISBN:
9780061138836
9780061138836
Category:
Poetry
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
25-03-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x15.49mm
Weight:
0.31kg

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