Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

A giant of world literature, an eloquent princess, a dissolute satirist these are the three voices translated from fourteenth-century Persian by Dick Davis in Faces of Love. Together, they represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three--Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and Obayd-e Zakani--lived in Shiraz, a provincial capital in sout More »