![]() "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. of Literature) Tehran."Superb translations. If he comes to Iran I will kiss the fingertips that wrote such a masterpiece inspired by the Creator of all." Dr. the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'."It is not a joke. ![]() Many of the poems were composed while translating the works of Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, Kabir, Obeyd Zakani, Jahan Khutan, Meher Baba (Huma) and many others and while writing novels, screenplays, children's books and plays where he continued to tell the inner and outer story of his passage through this mysterious and wonderful and sometimes very painful life. Here are poems of a personal nature, about human love & grief, about evolution and God and man and the environment and the past, present and future. Here are poems composed at home or travelling in the East and the U.S.A while giving readings of his poetry and translations. free-form, rhyming, ruba'is, ghazals, masnavis etc. Here are most of his poems composed over the past 53 years. Paul Smith Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1945, Paul Smith began composing poems in the ancient Persian form of the ghazal at the age of 6 on his way to school. THE MASTER, THE MUSE & THE POET An Autobiography in Poetry by. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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