Ten poems from Hafez /
Ḥāfiẓ,active 14th century.
Peacock, Jila.
Staines, Joe.
Khonsari, Ahmed.
Lewes : Sylph Editions,
2006.
English translations from the Persian of the poetry of the 14th-century poet Hafez by Jila Peacock, along with her "visual translations" (or "shape-poems"), using "ancient Persian figural calligraphy to make images made up of the script of the poems themselves" (p. 43).
Includes foreword by Parvin Loloi and the essay "Figural calligraphy in the Muslim world" by Robert Hillebrand (p. 9-17).
"This book is based on the silkscreen original published...in August 2004"--from colophon.
"Printed in an edition of 2000 by Die Keure, Brugge on Munken Pure (text and cover) and Modigliani (dust jacket).  The Latin letters are set in Monotype Centaur...The Persian text was set by means of dedicated vector-based drawing application that replicates nast'aliq, a style of calligraphy that developed in fifteenth century Shiraz"--from colophon.
Translated from Persian.
English translations from the Persian of the poetry of the 14th-century poet Hafez by Jila Peacock, along with her "visual translations" (or "shape-poems"), using "ancient Persian figural calligraphy to make images made up of the script of the poems themselves" (p. 43).
Calligraphy, Persian
Persian poetry
Sufi poetry, Persian