Faces of love by Ḥāfiẓ and translated by Dick Davis

This is poetry from Iran.

Faces of love by Ḥāfiẓ translated by Dick Davis is published by Mage Publishers. This is a Book originally written in Persian. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933823485E12.

Faces of love, by Ḥāfiẓ and translated by Dick Davis from Persian, brings Persian-language poetry from Iran into English through Hāfiẓ’s Persian love lyric, devotional ambiguity, and the beloved as face, wine, mirror, and mystery. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for love, face, wine, and the old lyric refusal to separate earthly desire from spiritual hunger, not as a fixed lesson about Iran. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Faces of love belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a foundational Persian doorway for readers tracing love poetry across languages.

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