"a groundbrealling worl:
...
a remarlwble
acllievement"
THE GREEN SEA OF HEAVEN
Fifty
ghazals
from the Dfwan of Hafiz
by Shams ud-Dln Muhammad Hafiz-i ShIrazI
Translated by Elizabeth
T.
Gray, Jr.
"This is
a groundbreaking work , one that places the
ghazal
of Hafiz
into
a contemporary English poetic
idiom. Ms.
Gray captures the
rhythms, the paradoxes, the
ironies,
the sudden changes
in
tone and
voice,
the ambiguities, the spark and the bite of the
original.
After too
long a wait, we encounter HafiZ, come alive
in
an English style that
is
at once natural and intricate.
This is
a remarkable achievement. "
Michael Sells, author of
Mystical Languages of
Unsaying
"These are truly remarkable and
moving
translations: the first English
versions of HafiZ to read
as
poetry while still capturing the unique
qualities of
concision,
multivalent
meaning
and
spiritual
depth
which
have for centuries made
his Persian ghazals
the acknowledged master–
piece and exemplar of poetic art throughout the Eastern Islamic world."
James Morris, professor of Islamic thought and literature, Oberlin College
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