Balkhi Rabe`eh

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society's social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn't; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes.

This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart the poems in Persian and English on facing pages is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he 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. From Rabe'eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mage Publishers Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949445602
• Artikelnr.: 67983416

Autorenporträt

A translator, an eminent scholar of Persian literature, and an acclaimed poet, Dick Davis has published more than twenty books. Educated in England, he lived and taught in Iran for eight years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and emeritus professor of Persian at Ohio State University. His translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2006 by The Washington Post. The Times Literary Supplement's review of his Love in Another Language, said, Dick Davis's collected poems of over forty-three years constitute what the great Persian poet Nezami called a makhzan-e asrar, a treasure house of mysteries and perfected marvels.