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Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women | Dick Davis
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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, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes.
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Dilara
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Here is my birthday haul: 2 new books, 10 second-hand, all had been in my wishlist for the longest time 😁 😍 🌞

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shadows What a beautiful table-cloth....handicraft from Isfahan?( my English language is not good, excuse me! ) 10mo
Dilara @shadows I know it's Iranian because I bought it in an Iranian handicraft shop in France, but I don't think the exact place it came from was specified. I'd love it if it came from Isfahan! 😁 10mo
shadows Yes, I am Iranian, and it is came from Isfahan...nowadays Iran is middle of revolution and many people executed because protesting to governments...a few days ago 3 man executed in Isfahan...(excuse me if I make you sad) (edited) 10mo
Dilara @shadows I am so sorry Iranian people are suffering right now. I hope the government stops persecuting protesters. 10mo
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“I'll make my declaration:
in my unsullied hands
there's no lust to clench my fists or strike out
I'm not going to get roaring drunk
I don't think it's glorious to kill people
I wasn't raised at the table
of male supremacy"

- Birthplace, Tahereh Saffarzadeh

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I wish I were like the fall..I wish I were like the fall
I wish I were like the fall, silent, with no desires at all
My wishes' leaves would one by one turn sallow-gold
My eyes' sun would grow cold
The heaven of my breast would fill with pain
& suddenly a storm of grief would seize my heart
Like rain my tears would start
& stain my dress
Oh..how lovely then, if I were like the fall
Feral & bitter with colours seeping into one another, so beautiful

Bookwomble "In Love with Sadness," by Forugh Farrokhzad 2y
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"Some days are like a placid horse; some rear
And buck and plunge, this way and that they veer;
As Fate has always been, so it will be -
Time is our friend, and then our enemy,
It's day, then night, its revolutions bring
December's snows to us, and then the spring."

- Parvin Etesami

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"The roses have all gone; "Goodbye," we say, we must;
And I shall leave the busy world one day; I must.
My little room, my books, my love, my sips of wine,
All these are dear to me, they'll pass away, they must."
- Jahan Malek Khatun

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Gorgeous cover, looking forward to reading this for a monthly challenge.
#Iran #WomeninTranslation

Bookwomble That sounds fantastic - I'm on the phone to order it! 😊 2y
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