Edited and introduced with notes by Don Share, Bunting's Persia collects Basil Bunting’s translations from Persian poetry by
Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Manuchehri, Sa‘di, Hafiz, and Obaid-e Zakani, including previously unpublished translations. 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
Published by Flood Editions.
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