YUSRIA Talk: A Thousand Years of Contempt, Complaint and Conflict (with Occasional Kisses and Cuddles): How Men Appear in Persian Poetry by Women, and Other Critical Questions in Literary Translation

Dick Davis’ award-winning translations of classical Persian poetry include Farid ud-Din Attar’s The Conference of Birds, Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, Fakhraddin Gorgani’s Vis and Ramin, and a collection of lyrics by Hafez (Faces of Love). A scholar and an acclaimed poet, Davis is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor Emeritus of Persian at Ohio State University.
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