Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 30/09/2021
ISBN: 9780143135616
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 195mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 257g
RRP: £12.99
An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first time
From Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from princesses and entertainers to anonymous wives and daughters, The Mirror of My Heart displays the extraordinary breadth of women writing in Persian. The 83 poets included in this collection - many translated here for the first time - traverse a thousand years: from Rabe'eh and her surprisingly sensual writing in the ninth century, to the powerful verse of Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first.
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 30/09/2021
ISBN: 9780143135616
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 195mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 257g
RRP: £12.99
In every respect, The Mirror of My Heart is outstanding. Reading it one discovers a whole tradition of love poetry, epigram and elegy, movingly brought into English. Most important now, this anthology reminds us how much we all share the same joys, the same sorrows