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The Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

By Hafiz, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. (Translator), Iraj Anvar (Translator), Daryush Shayegan (Afterword)
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By Hafiz, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. (Translator), Iraj Anvar (Translator), Daryush Shayegan (Afterword)
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Authoritative edition of Hafiz’s most important poems, including original Persian and brilliant English translations

Recent translations of Hafiz have been controversial. Omid Safi, an Islamic studies scholar at Duke, notes that “there are so many fake translations of Hafiz floating around, offering ‘versions’ that have no earthly connection to anything that the Persian poet and sage of Shiraz named Hafiz ever said. Elizabeth Gray offers us something different: poetic translations rooted in ...

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