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After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems
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Hasan Sijzi of Delhi
Beth Gould
, July 06, 2016
This translation of poetry by the Indo-Persian poet Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (1253-c. 1330) collects 70 of his poems. The city of Delhi, India was then ruled by the Persian-speaking Ghurid dynasty, which originated in what is now Afghanistan. Hasan Sijzi descended from immigrants of eastern Afghanistan and Iran who had fled the Mongol invasions to South Asia and had taken up residence in Delhi in search of new opportunities and a peaceful existence. Delhi served as "a haven for wandering scholars and poets." Hasan began writing poetry at the age of thirteen. By the early modern period he was regarded as central to both Indo-Persian literature and to the history of Indian Sufism. Most of the poets who practiced the Persian poetic form known as the ghazal have not been translated, but the ones best known to Western readers include Hafez (who was influenced by Sijzi's work) and Rumi. The poems translated in this collection include 50 ghazals. A ghazal has five or more rhyming couplets, with each line sharing the same meter. In the second line of each couplet, a word, syllable, or set of syllables recurs as a refrain. This refrain, called the radif, is given at the end of each ghazal so that readers of the translation can see where the radif is used in the original poem. The other poems include quatrains (ruba’i), fragments of poetry, and an ode (qasida). I especially liked ghazals 1, 16 and 17, although I can't quote them here due to the word limit. These are beautiful poems.
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Bell At Sealey Head
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Patricia A Mckillip
Beth Gould
, December 11, 2013
Excellent, but a little disappointing. The mystery is intriguing and the writing in this book is beautiful. For instance: "The cook, a massive mangel-wurzel of a woman, stirred with one hand and dabbed her tears and apron into the other. She had a long braid of gray-brown hair and expressive hazelnut eyes, which at the moment, were red and wellling over and salting the brine." (A mangel-wurzel is a type of root vegetable.) Most of the characters are believable, but the villain's motivations kind of come out of nowhere. I wasn't expecting that from McKillip. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, for example, doesn't have that problem.
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