Paul Smith SADI FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY : Selected Ghazals of Sadi and

SADI FOR THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY Selected Ghazals of Sadi and Ghazals inspired by them by his Translator Paul Smith. Sadi (Saadi or Sadi) of Shiraz (12101291), a contemporary of Rumi who influenced him, was a Sufi Perfect Master (Qutub) Poet who expressed himself in hundreds of ghazals in his beautiful Divan. Sadi was a great traveller who spent forty years on the road throughout the MiddleEast, North Africa and India and many of the incidents he experienced he wrote down in his two most famous works when he finally returned to his beloved birthplace... The Rose Garden (Gulistan) and The Orchard (Bustan). Sadis mystical love poetry, his ghazals, although almost unknown in the West, are loved by his fellowcountrymen almost as much as those of Hafiz whom he greatly influenced. Here are 87 of them followed by ghazals composed by his translator Paul Smith using the first couplets from Sadis ghazals as inspiration to create poems that are distinctly modern but still in this ancient form. The correct rhymestructure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these unique mystical poems. Introduction Life Times Poetry of Sadi and his influence on the East and the West and on the form and meaning of the ghazal and the greatest writers of them with examples. Glossary and a Selected Bibliography. One Appendix. Large Print (14pt) Large Format ("8 x 10") Paperback. 332 pages. Comments on Paul Smiths Translation of Hafizs Divan. "It is not a joke... the English version of all... | Paul Smith SADI FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY : Selected Ghazals of Sadi and