The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women By Dick Davis

Published: 30/09/2021

Genres: Poetry - Iran - Classics - Feminism - Fiction - Literature - Middle East

An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first time

From Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from princesses and entertainers to anonymous wives and daughters, The Mirror of My Heart displays the extraordinary breadth of women writing in Persian. The 83 poets included in this collection - many translated here for the first time - traverse a thousand years: from Rabe'eh and her surprisingly sensual writing in the ninth century, to the powerful verse of Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first.

Publisher information

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780143135616
Number of pages: 352
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 17 mm
Weight: 241 g
Language: English (Language of text), Persian (Original language of a translated text)