Poems Of Tahir Ghani
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This is a poetry translation collection that brings a seventeenth-century Persian voice into modern English, highlighting a cross-cultural blend of Iranian and Indian poetic traditions. The central aim is to illuminate wit, irony, tenderness, and spiritual reflection across moods. Written for adults and students with an interest in world literature, classic poetry, and translation, the tone is thoughtful, lyrical, and evocative.
The content is presented as a carefully chosen set of translations paired with an expansive introduction that explains how this poetry emerged from the Kashmir-era exchange between Mughal and Safavid cultures, part of the sabk-e-Hindi lineage. The translations render the original's humor, playfulness, self-pity, pessimism, and mysticism in a contemporary idiom while preserving tonal nuance and musical rhythm.
Readers move through the book with accessible language, guided by the introduction and the translation's musicality. The experience invites rereading and reflection on imagery, metaphor, and the craft of translation, offering insights into cross-cultural poetry and the art of rendering intent across languages. For learners, it offers insights into how imagery, wordplay, and rhythm travel across languages, and how historical context shapes meaning.
- Translations cover a broad mood range—from satire and wit to self-reflection and mysticism—renderedReader reviews
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