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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable...

In Kabirist in Love, Ji Strangeway confides in the 15th-century Indian mystic poet Kabir through poems full of tenderness and yearning. Kabir inhabits her poems as a living presence, both soulmate and muse. Strangeway examines in equal measure the profane and exalted aspects of life, searching for essential truths only to be met with paradox. Her verses present unanswerable riddles and tension that reveals how touching the face of the ineffable is a desirable poetic and spiritual state.