After Tomorrow the Days Disappear : Ghazals and Other Poems / Hasan Sijzi, Rebecca Gould.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḥasan Dihlavī, 1253 or 1254-approximately 1338, author.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth, author.

Series:

Northwestern World Classics

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Place of Publication:

Northwestern University Press 2016

[s.l.] : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 and profane, 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, but their verse represents only 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 better known Iranian names.

Contents:

Conspicuous sameness: introducing Hasan's lyric verse

Ghazals

Quatrains

Fragments

Ode

Notes to the poems

Appendix: Hasan's poems in Persian editions

Chronology of Hasan's life and times

Glossary of key terms and names.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780810132313

0810132311

9780810132306

0810132303

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access