The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women Paperback – February 9, 2021

I would buy this just for the Introduction to the text written by Davis.

The title of the anthology says it all. You get a vast, varied collection of absolutely beautiful and inspiring poetry by Persian women poets from long past to near present. Of course, there are also notes and references included for context and history, including a brief biography of each featured poet. Any poetry-lover would enjoy this immensely.

This is a nice collection of poems. A bio of each poetess is given and it's interesting that some of them were murdered because they were aligned with or part of the ruling family and then another family took over.Several of the poems are similar to ancient Chinese poems. As a collection only the ancient Japanese poetry collection Kokinshu ( also called Kokin Wakashu) gets five stars.

A fascinating and thought provoking collection of poetry by women writing in Persian - poets from Persia, Afghanistan, and India and covering over a millenia. Many of these poets I had never heard of but I am oh so glad I can read them now. Poignant, political, maternal, melancholy - they cover a range of emotions, eras - with a voice that is often un-expected - a mirror into other worlds. The collection has a great introduction that covers much of the history of women poets in the Persian speaking world and excellent notes. A real find for any poetry lover; especially those who want to hear long hidden voices.

I like this one very much.

The cover was lovely, maybe one day will get to see what the rest of the book was like. The book arrived without blemish, because it was invisible, may order it again, probably wouldn’t recommend

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