The Mirror of My Heart : A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

Author: Davis, Dick

Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Published on 30 September 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first timeFrom Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from princesses and entertainers to anonymous wives and daughters, The Mirror of My Heart displays the extraordinary breadth of women writing in Persian. The 83 poets included in this collection - many translated here for the first time - traverse a thousand years: from Rabe'eh and her surprisingly sensual writing in the ninth century, to the powerful verse of Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first.