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Bringing medieval Persian verse to the West: Dick Davis Interview

Juan Cole 01/04/2014

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PBS Newshour’s Jeff Brown interviews Dick Davis, among the foremost Persian scholars and translators of our time, on the delights and glories of Persian poetry.

Davis is the translator of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

For Barnes and Noble fans the book is here.

And here it is at the indie Powell’s books

I’ll try to embed one of Davis’s superb translations here:

Filed Under: fiction, Iran, poetry, Uncategorized

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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