Forthcoming: Bunting’s Persia
Edited by Don Share, this slim anthology
collects Basil Bunting’s translations from Persian poetry by Rudaki,
Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa‘di, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including some
that are previously unpublished. Bunting, who is widely regarded as one
of the most important British poets of the twentieth century, proved
unusual in his deep and abiding interest in Middle Eastern culture.
Here, he renders poetry of remarkable tonal and emotional range in
characteristically clear and resolute language.
“Reading Bunting’s translations, I am
struck again by how fresh and strong they are, how vivid in their
feeling, and how he digs into the spirit of the originals—a kind of
passionate excavation work.”—Dick Davis, translator of The Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
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