| The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women Contributor(s): Davis, Dick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1949445054 ISBN-13: 9781949445053 Publisher: Mage Publishers
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2019 * Out of Print * |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 891.551 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" L (1.20 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Features: Bibliography, Maps, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/21/2019 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society's social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries--Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn't; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. |
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