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Title: News of Love (Unicorn Keepsake Ser.; Vol. XI) by Hafiz of Shiraz, Anne Greene, Hafiz, David Cluotier ISBN: 0-87775-155-2 Publisher: Unicorn Press Pub. Date: May, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.50

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Summary: Of limited interest to the Hafiz-lover!
Comment: As a translator of Hafiz Shirazi myself(in Norwegian), I know how difficult he is to meet. Go to Hafiz with an open mind; not looking for his "immoral" teaching as his contemporaries did. Don't go to him as the Sufi mystic with "secret messages" everywhere in his ghazals, as our contemporaries tends to do. He is a complexed writer and as all writers should be; full of surprises in every aspect! "News of love" has obviously a translator decided on finding "Hafiz the Sufi Master" searching for The Wisdom of Sufi wherever he can, and of course he finds it. But he forgets how important the poetic beauty of a ghazal is(Have we forgotten why it's called a ghazal? God's most beautiful creature next to man!). The poems "dry up", the intellectual student of Sufism gets what he wants dusty like the streets of Shiraz, but the admirer or sybarite of love and beauty, with "wein, weib und gesang" in his mind, is untouched by these translations. In his lifetime Hafiz was for everybody, so don't let us make him more esoteric then he is. I read the book when it was first published in 1984 and I've read it again now. This is not my favourite Hafiz-anthology.