The Garden of Heaven-Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz Hafiz

The Garden of Heaven-Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz Hafiz

Hafiz has no peer. -- Goethe
Poetry is the greatest literary form of ancient Persia and modern Iran, and the fourteenth-century poet known as Hafiz is its preeminent master. Little is known about the poet's life, and there are more legends than facts relating to the particulars of his existence. This mythic quality is entirely appropriate for the man known as The Interpreter of Mysteries and The Tongue of the Hidden, whose verse is regarded as oracular by those seeking guidance and attempting to realize wishes.
A mere fraction of what is presumed to have been an extensive body of work survives. This collection is derived from Hafiz's Divan (collected poems), a classic of Sufism. The short poems, called ghazals, are sonnet-like arrangements of varied numbers of couplets. In the tradition of Persian poetry and Sufi philosophy, each poem corresponds to two interpretations, sensual and mystic.
This outstanding translation of Hafiz's poetry was created by historian and Arabic scholar Gertrude Bell, who observed, These are the utterances of a great poet, the imaginative interpreter of the heart of man; they are not of one age, or of another, but for all time.

Hafiz was a professor of religious studies and a poet. Jeffrey Einboden is an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University and the author of Composing a Persian Letter: Simin Daneshvar s Rendition of Hawthorne and Washington Irving in Muslim Translation: Revising the American Mahomet. He lives in DeKalb, Illinois. John Slater is a poet who has been published in Brink Magazine, Drunken Boat, and Queen s Quarterly. He is a Cistercian monk and is pursuing a graduate degree in theology at Catholic University of America. He lives in Piffard, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780486431611
ISBN 10	0486431614
Title	The Garden of Heaven-Poems of Hafiz
Author	Hafiz Hafiz
Series	Thrift Editions
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2003-11-01
Number of pages	112
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