Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time...Faces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
"Davis has done something I'd thought impossible: given us an Englished Hafez whose verses retain an intimation of what all the fuss is about...this anthology is a revelation."
--Michael Robbins, The Chicago Tribune
"Radiant...Davis expertly elucidates the conventions these poets worked within and played against."
--A. E. Stallings, The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year