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portada The Mirror of my Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
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Physical Book
Translated by
Introduction by
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Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.3x12.7x1.8 cm
Weight
0.23 kg.
ISBN13
9780143135616
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The Mirror of my Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

Dick Davis (Translated by, Introduction by, Edited by) · Penguin · Paperback

The Mirror of my Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women - Davis, Dick ; Davis, Dick ; Davis, Dick

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Synopsis "The Mirror of my Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women"

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 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.

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