The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door by Robert Bly & Leonard Lewisohn

Author:Robert Bly & Leonard Lewisohn [Bly, Robert & Lewisohn, Leonard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Regional & Cultural, Middle Eastern
ISBN: 0061138843
Google: bP-rAyaJ6s4C
Amazon: B001VA1PI4
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2009-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Considered in the light of the rich historical background and sophisticated mystical doctrines carried by the lives and words of the qalandar, rind, and malamati traditions, many of Hafez’s images no longer appear as mere colorful metaphors, but actually convey quite precise spiritual significances:

People have aimed the arrow of guilt a hundred times

In our direction. With the help of our Darling’s eyebrow,

Blame has been a blessing, and has opened all our work.

Out of the hundreds of verses by Hafez celebrating the malamati’s road, I’ll set down three stanzas from a famous ghazal that flaunt his bacchanalian ethics and attack Muslim fundamentalists:

I’m notorious throughout the whole city

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