The angels knocking on the tavern door
Subtitle: thirty poems of Hafez
By: translated by Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn.
Contributors: Bly, Robert.; Lewisohn, Leonard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780061138836; 9780061138843
Work titles: Poems.
Description: At last in English is a wide selection from the great Persian poet Hafez, so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. When Robert Bly and Coleman Barks visited Iran, they heard schoolchildren singing Hafez poems at his graveside. For some fifteen years, the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn has worked with Robert Bly to produce this translation, which for the first time carries into English Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor directed at the mullahs, his astonishing range of thought, and the delight of his love poems.