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ISBN 978-0-14-310728-6 $18.00 ($19.00 CAN)
Literature/Poetry 5 5 /8 x 8 7 /16 368 pp.
Rights: W00 Pub history: Mage hc 978-1-933823-48-5
On sale: 8/27/2013
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“ Dick Davis’s love affair with Persian literature
has resulted in another marvelous
offspring.” —Azar Nafisi, author of Reading
Lolita in Tehran
“ [A] heady volume . . . a gem.”
—A. E. Stallings, National Book Critics Circle
Award finalist for Olives
also availaBle fRoM Penguin ClassiCs:
Vis and Ramin 978-0-14-310562-6 $17.00
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes
new life into the timeless works of three
masters of 14th-century Persian literature
Faces of Love
Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and
Obayd-e Zakani
Translated by Dick Davis
Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun,
an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist,
represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any
era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital
of south-central Iran, and all three drew support from arts-loving
rulers during a time better known for its violence than its creative
brilliance. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered
“our finest translator of Persian poetry” (The Times Literary
Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems
by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual
and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of
the human heart.
n A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition featuring french flaps and
deckle-edged paper
n Includes an introduction, notes, an appendix of Dick Davis’s own
poems, and indices of English and Persian first lines
n Davis has also translated the Shahnameh, The Conference of
the Birds, Vis and Ramin, and other Penguin Classics editions of
Persian literature
DiCk Davis is a translator, a poet, and a scholar of
Persian literature who has published more than twenty books.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has taught
at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Ohio
State University. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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