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Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation, and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes.

Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation, and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes.

Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the central role of monarchy in Persian history. In this groundbreaking book, Dick Davis argues that the poem is far more than a patriotic chronicle of kingly deeds. Rather, it is a subtle and highly ambiguous discussion of authority, and far from being a celebration of monarchy, its most famous episodes an...

An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.A Penguin ClassicThe 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 a...

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.

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, ...

This bilingual edition of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz has the original Persian verses facing the English translations. The three Shirazi poets whose work is featured here, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and Obayd-e Zakani, lived at the same time (the mid fourteenth century), and certainly knew of one another Obayd wrote at least two poems about Jahan Khatun, and Jahan Khatun quotes Hafez in one of her poems. Its extremely likely t...

An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time.

A selection from the author's three earlier books, together with twenty-three new poems.

Contains Dick Davis' poems written since 1979.

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Presents epigrams and satirical poems like "A Translator's Nightmare". This book concludes with a retelling of the story of Esther and Mordecai.

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature 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 a...

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Offers a collection of poems.

Brings together a wide range of shorter poems by poets from the 'classic' period of Persian literature. This book contains introduction, and informative head notes on each of the 68 poets whose work is included.

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New work by acclaimed British-born emigre and formalist poet, Dick Davis, whose previous collection, Belonging, was chosen as one of the top ten books of the year by The Economist.

In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with--travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us. But A Trick of Sunlight introduces a new theme that revolves around the idea of happiness--is it possible, must it be illusory, is its fleetingness an essential part of its...