Jahan Malek Khatun
Praise for Faces of Love
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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