Anthony A. Lee

Anthony A. Lee , Ph.D. (History) lives in Manhattan Beach, CA. He is the author of This Poem Means (Lotus Press 2005) and is co-translator, with Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, of Love Is My Savior and Wine of Reunion, both translations of the Arabic poems of Rumi (Michigan State University Press, 2016 and 2017) and other books of history and literary translation.

Culture

Piety and Sexuality: The Subaltern Poetry of Mir Taqi Mir

Anthony A. Lee

Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is recognized as one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language. He is claimed by Pakistan as one of the premier poets who helped to shape the language and its literature. Of course, he is hardly known in the West. So, we hear him as a subaltern voice. A new […]