Hafez 'What memories' (trans Dick Davis)
Nov 27, 2020•1 min•Ep. 164
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Hafez, 1315 (?) -1398/90)
We live in a great age of translation, and there's no excuse for not exploring poetries other than English. Hafez is one of the world’s great poets, in one of the history’s great literatures, and Dick Davis is one of the great translators.
Ironically i first came across both of them in an essay Davis wrote called ‘On not Translating Hafez’.
This poem is taken from Davis’ ‘Faces of Love: Hafez and the poets of Shiraz’ Mage Publishers 2012/2019
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