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After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems

After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems Poetry

After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems

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Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin.

As with other Persian poets, Hasan worked within a highly regulated set of poetic conventions that brought into relief the interpenetration of apparent opposites—metaphysical and material, mysterious and quotidian, death and desire, sacred andprofane, fleeting time and eternity. Within these strictures, he crafted a poetics that blended Sufi Islam with non-Muslim Indic traditions. Of the Persian poets who practiced the ghazal, Hafez and Rumi are best known to Western readers, but their verse representsonly a small fraction of a rich tradition. This collection reveals the geographical range of the literature while introducing an Indian voice that will find a place on readers’ bookshelves alongside well-known Iranian names.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2016-02-28
Publication Date:
2016-02-28
Publisher:
Northwestern University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0810132303
ISBN13:
9780810132306
Weight:
136 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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