Download or read book An Invitation to Persian Poetry written by and published by Ketab.com. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "An invitation to persian poetry", Reza Saberi invites both those who are new to and those who are familiar with the persian language to share with him one of the greatest joys of life:the beautiful, enhanting, and eternal poetry of iran dating back hundreds of years with universal messages transcending cultures, time, and place. Here, in this second edition, saberi has selected poems from 124 classic and modern Persian poets of the past millennium and has gracefully translated them into English in a way that allows readers to enjoy the allure and inspiration of these verses with out diminishing their original meaning and elegance.through these translations, Saberi hopes to introduce to the people of the world and particular those of the west one of the most precious treasures of Iranian culture."an invitation to Persian poetry" is intended to serve as an attractive invitation card that entices its receiver to explore the fascinating paradise of persian poetry. ketab - sherkat ketab - شرکت کتاب - ketab.com - ketab corp

Download or read book An Invitation to Persian Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emerson in Iran written by Roger Sedarat and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extending the current trend in transnational studies back to the figural origins of both the United States and Iran, Roger Sedarat's insightful comparative readings of Platonism and Sufi mysticism reveal how Emerson managed to reconcile through verse two countries so seemingly different in religion and philosophy. By tracking various rhetorical strategies through a close interrogation of Emerson's own writings on language and literary appropriation, Sedarat exposes the development of a latent but considerable translation theory in the American literary tradition. He further shows how generative Persian poetry becomes during Emerson's nineteenth century, and how such formative effects continue to influence contemporary American poetry and verse translation.

Download or read book SELECTED VERSES FROM S EB TABRIZI written by Sâeb Tabrizi and published by Ketab.com. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Selected Verses from Sâeb, Reza Saberi, translator of An Invitation to Persian Poetry, A Thousand Years of Persian Ruba’iyat, and the complete Divan of Hafez, translates the work of yet another great poet from Iran. Here Saberi has selected gems from the voluminous Divan of Sâeb and faithfully translated them into English. These delicate expressions of ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and mystical concepts are so profound that they will never cease to inspire and guide their readers. Their greatest message is the necessity of expanding human consciousness by diverting it from the material to the spiritual, from the transient to the permanent, and from the illusory to the real. گلچینی از صائب تبریزی در این کتاب رضا صابری نویسنده و مترجم کتاب‌هایی به زبان‌های فارسی و انگلیسی گوهرهایی از دیوان بزرگ صائب را برگزیده و بدقّت به زبان انگلیسی امروزی برگردانده است. این اشعار زیبا دارای اندیشه‌های بسیار ژرف و عارفانه می‌باشند. ketab - sherkat ketab - شرکت کتاب - ketab.com - ketab corp

Download or read book The Mirror of My Heart A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women written by Rabe`eh Balkhi and published by Mage Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

Download or read book A Cup of Sin written by Simin Behbahani and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simin Behbahani’s collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped Iranian history: revolution and war. Behbahani balances artful inquiry and shocking realism in both her language and imagery to probe the depths of political, cultural, and moral oppression. In the traditional verse of the ghazal, she improvises with meter to echo and provide new interpretations.

Download or read book Persian Words of Wisdom written by Bahman Solati and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the secret of happiness? What is the nature of love? What makes us good hosts or good guests? What traits should we seek out in friends and seek to embody as friends ourselves? How should we approach the sensual beauties of this world- when do they induce us to error and when are they signs of God? The poets and bards of many traditions have long sought answers to such questions, but perhaps no culture has taken up this challenge with more passionate urgency than that of Persia, from the ninth century AD to modern-day Iran. These eleven centuries of poetic tradition include poets who have become well-known in the West, such as 'Umar Khayyam, Rumi, and Hafiz, as well as many others whom Westerners have yet to discover. In Iran these poems remain part of everyday popular culture, with people of all classes and levels of education able to recite them from memory, even if they may not always be sure who the poets were, where they came from, or what precisely was the spiritual intent behind the verse. In Persian Words of Wisdom, the US-based Iranian scholar Bahman Solati has compiled hundreds of examples reflecting his country's religious and spiritual traditions, especially the Shia branch of Islam and Islamic Sufism, but also the Zoroastrian faith. This bilingual edition with his own English translations further illuminates the sometimes enigmatic poems with parallel Western proverbs, as well as comparison quotations from Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist scripture and secular sources ranging from Mark Twain to Dale Carnegie. One of Solati's goals in this anthology is to build a cultural bridge through poetry between the West and Iran, making these treasures of Persian culture more available both to Westerners generally and, most specifically, to young people of Iranian descent who have grown up in the English-speaking world, perhaps without fully understanding the wealth of their heritage. For them and all readers, this will be a book of discovery.

Download or read book A Cup of Sin written by Simin Behbahani and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simin Behbahani’s collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped Iranian history: revolution and war. Behbahani balances artful inquiry and shocking realism in both her language and imagery to probe the depths of political, cultural, and moral oppression. In the traditional verse of the ghazal, she improvises with meter to echo and provide new interpretations.

Download or read book Persian Poems written by Arthur John Arberry and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry written by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and published by Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Persian Love Poetry written by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a major theme in Persian poetry and can be interpreted in various ways—as mystic love, the basis of the relationship between humans and God, or as passionate or affectionate love between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children, family and friends, or even as patriotic love of Iran. The literary style and indeed the Persian language itself are floral and elaborate, but the themes differ little from our preoccupations with love and romance today. This collection of extracts has been selected from the best of traditional and contemporary Persian poetry. Each poem is illustrated with a fine example of Persian art from the collections of the British Museum. With a brief introduction to the Persian poetic tradition and a short biographical note about each of the poets, this beautiful anthology is the perfect way to discover the treasures of Persian literature and art.

Download or read book Modern Persian Poetry Persian Farsi Edition written by Nazanin Mirsadeghi and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an easy-to-read anthology of modern Persian poems. While this anthology by no means represents all modern Persian poets and their masterworks, the poems presented in this book have been carefully selected solely based on ease of language, for learning purposes. As a result, some modern Persian poets and their masterpieces have been excluded because of the complexity of their poems. The poems in this anthology have been sequenced based on ease, from easy to more difficult, regardless of the poet. Therefore, you may find various poems from the same poet at various points throughout this selection. To ease your learning experience, the difficult terms in each poem have been underlined and translations of those terms have been provided at the end of each poem. A brief biography of each featured poet has also been provided at the end of the book.

Download or read book Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry written by Ehsan Yarshatar and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shahnameh written by Firdawsī and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.

Download or read book Of the Path and of the Drops written by Shahab Shamloo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the mind-quaking atrocities committed by the blood trickling iron claws of mullah-military rulers in the name of Allah in Iran . The slavery of a nation under the club-kiss of religion and the liquidation of its natural resources into endless ground-sweeping robe pockets . The writings also show the struggle of the artists endeavoring to find his identity within this society distorted by so many contradictions . On one side of the book you have the Persian poetry and on the other side you have the English translations and poetry originally written in English .

Download or read book T hirih written by Qurrat al-ʻAyn and published by Kalimat Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahirih's poems are well known among Persian Baha'is, but until now there has been no suitable translation of her work that would give English-speaking readers a sense of her genius. Now Amin Banani, Professor Emeritus at UCLA in Persian history and literature; Jascha Kessler, Professor of English at UCLA; and Anthony A. Lee, historian and award-winning poet, have teamed to produce this translation of her work. The poems are brilliant in emotional impact and prophetic in their themes. They should become familiar parts of Baha'i Feasts, Holy Day celebrations, and devotional gatherings. These poems are a monument to this remarkable woman.

Download or read book Song of the Ground Jay Poems by Iranian Women 1960 2022 written by and published by Mage Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iranian women have been writing Persian poetry for over a thousand years, and in the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged once again as an outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. In this bilingual anthology, encompassing both the most progressive and the most regressive eras for women in Iran, Mojdeh Bahar introduces readers to the poems of Iranian women during the past sixty years. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Song of the Ground Jay engages with a diverse array of Iranian women's voices that includes the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-with varying styles, tones, and themes, painting a dynamic and cohesive portrait of modern Persian poetry by women. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with contemporary Persian poetry by Iranian women but doesn't know where to start, Song of the Ground Jay opens a door and invites you to walk in.