After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems - Couverture souple

Sijzi, Hasan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810132303 ISBN 13 : 9780810132306

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin.

As with other Persian poets, Hasan worked within a highly regulated set of poetic conventions that brought into relief the interpenetration of apparent opposites—metaphysical and material, mysterious and quotidian, death and desire, sacred andprofane, fleeting time and eternity. Within these strictures, he crafted a poetics that blended Sufi Islam with non-Muslim Indic traditions. Of the Persian poets who practiced the ghazal, Hafez and Rumi are best known to Western readers, but their verse representsonly a small fraction of a rich tradition. This collection reveals the geographical range of the literature while introducing an Indian voice that will find a place on readers’ bookshelves alongside well-known Iranian names.

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À propos de l'auteur

HASAN SIJZI OF DELHI (1254-c. 1328) was a key figure in the development of Indo-Persian literary culture and its poetic forms following the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century. He began writing poetry at the age of thirteen.

REBECCA GOULD is a reader in comparative literature and translation studies in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810132303
• ISBN 13: 9780810132306
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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