The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
??fi?, Robert Bly, Leonard Lewisohn
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2008
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- The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
- Author
- ??fi?, Robert Bly, Leonard Lewisohn
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- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication year
- 2008
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- 9780061138836
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One of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.
There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that the Persians have for Hafez. Children learn to sing Hafez poems in the third grade, and almost every family has a copy of the collected Hafez on the dining room table. Robert Bly and the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn have worked for 15 years on this book of Hafez, the first that carries into English his nimbleness, his outrageous humor, his defenses of the private life in the face of the fundamentalists, and the joy of his love poems. He writes in the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry. This is Rumi’s wild younger brother, now brought into an English that makes his genius visible.
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door
Thirty Poems of HafezBy Robert BlyHarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Copyright ©2008 Robert BlyAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9780061138836
How Blame Has Been Helpful
We are drunken ecstatics who have let our hearts
Go to the wild. We are musty scholars
Of love, and old friends of the wine cup.
People have aimed the arrow of guilt a hundred times
In our direction. With the help of our Darling?s eyebrow,
Blame has been a blessing, and has opened all our work.
Oh, dark-spotted flower, you endured pain all night,
Waiting for the wine of dawn; I am that poppy
That was born with the burning spot of suffering.
If our Zoroastrian master has become disgusted
With our way of repentance, tell him, Go ahead,
Strain the wine. We are standing here with our heads down.
It is through you that our work goes on at all;
Oh, teacher of the way, please throw us a glance.
Let?s be clear about it; we have fallen off the path.
Don?t imagine us to be like the tulip, who is preoccupied
With its goblet shape; rather look at the dark
Spot of grief we have set on our scorched hearts.
"Hafez," you say, "what about all your intriguing colors
And ingenious fantasies?" Don?t take our language seriously.
We are a clean slate on which nothing has been written.
Continues...
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