{"product_id":"the-angels-knocking-on-the-tavern-door-thirty-poems-of-hafez-9780061138843","title":"The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that the Persians have for Hafez. Children learn to sing Hafez poems in the third grade, and almost every family has a copy of the collected Hafez on the dining room table. Robert Bly and the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn have worked for 15 years on this book of Hafez, the first that carries into English his nimbleness, his outrageous humor, his defenses of the private life in the face of the fundamentalists, and the joy of his love poems. He writes in the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry. This is Rumi's wild younger brother, now brought into an English that makes his genius visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBly, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRobert Bly's books of poetry include \u003cem\u003eThe Night Abraham Called to the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMy Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy\u003c\/em\u003e. His awards include the National Book Award for poetry and two Guggenheims. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLewisohn, Leonard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDr. Leonard Lewisohn is Lecturer in Persian and the Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Classical Persian and Sufi Literature at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649733628178,"sku":"9780061138843","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cafa0fde-1064-4061-b394-19393bdcbe64.jpg?v=1733272273","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-angels-knocking-on-the-tavern-door-thirty-poems-of-hafez-9780061138843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}