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A Penguin Classic
The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. 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, some were entertainers, but many were wives and daughters who wrote simply for their own entertainment, and they were active in many different countries - Iran, India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. From Rabe'eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, the women poets found in The Mirror of My Heart write across the millennium on such universal topics as marriage, children, political climate, death, and emancipation, recreating life from hundreds of years ago that is strikingly similar to our own today and giving insight into their experiences as women throughout different points of Persian history. The volume is introduced and translated by Dick Davis, a scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right.
A Penguin Classic
The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. 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, some were entertainers, but many were wives and daughters who wrote simply for their own entertainment, and they were active in many different countries - Iran, India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. From Rabe'eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, the women poets found in The Mirror of My Heart write across the millennium on such universal topics as marriage, children, political climate, death, and emancipation, recreating life from hundreds of years ago that is strikingly similar to our own today and giving insight into their experiences as women throughout different points of Persian history. The volume is introduced and translated by Dick Davis, a scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right.
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.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 352 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143135616 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143135619 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Übersetzung: | Davis, Dick |
| Zusammengestellt: | Davis, Dick |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Maße: | 193 x 127 x 15 mm |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.09.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,252 kg |
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.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 352 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143135616 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143135619 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Übersetzung: | Davis, Dick |
| Zusammengestellt: | Davis, Dick |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Maße: | 193 x 127 x 15 mm |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.09.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,252 kg |
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