Bunting's Persia
By: translations by Basil Bunting ; edited by Don Share
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Flood Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780983889304
Subjects: Persian poetry; Translations into English
Notes: "This ... anthology collects Basil Bunting's translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Saʿdi, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some that are previously unpublished"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: RUDAKI --; title: All the teeth ever I had are worn down and fallen out --; title: Came to me --; title: FERDOWSI --; title: When the sword of sixty comes nigh his head --; title: The Beginning of the Stories --; title: From Faridun's Sons --; title: MANUCHEHRI --; title: Night is hard by. I am vexed and bothered by sleep --; title: The thundercloud fills meadows with heavenly beauty --; title: Hi, tent-boy, get that tent down --; title: You, with my enemy, strolling down my street --; title: Amru'l Qais and Labid and Akhtal and blind A'sha and Qais --; title: SA'DI --; title: Last night without sight of you my brain was ablaze --; title: You've come! O how flustered and anxious I've been --; title: Many well-known people have been packed away in cemeteries --; title: A Tale from The Rose Garden --; title: This I write, mix ink with tears --; title: HAFIZ --; title: Light of my eyes, there is something to be said --; title: O everlastingly self-deluded! --; title: Isnt it poetical, a chap's mind in the dumps? --; title: I'm the worse for drink again, it's --; title: OBAID-E ZAKANI --; title: The Pious Cat.