Hasan Sijzi, also known as Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, 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...
Translated from the Persian by Rebecca Gould
Hasan Sijzi, also known as Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, is considered the originator of the...