After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8101-3230-6
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Northwestern World Classics

Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin.

As with other Persian poets, Hasan worked within a highly regulated set of poetic conventions that brought into relief the interpenetration of apparent opposites—metaphysical and material, mysterious and quotidian, death and desire, sacred andprofane, fleeting time and eternity. Within these strictures, he crafted a poetics that blended Sufi Islam with non-Muslim Indic traditions. Of the Persian poets who practiced the ghazal, Hafez and Rumi are best known to Western readers, but their verse representsonly a small fraction of a rich tradition. This collection reveals the geographical range of the literature while introducing an Indian voice that will find a place on readers’ bookshelves alongside well-known Iranian names.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sijzi of Delhi, Hasan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gould, Rebecca

Über Autor(innen)

Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (1254–c. 1328) was a key figure in the development of Indo-Persian literary culture and its poetic forms following the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century. He began writing poetry at the age of thirteen.

Rebecca Gould is an assistant professor of literature at Yale–NUS College (Singapore).