The Mirror Of My Heart A Thousand Years Of Persian Poetry By Women

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women is a groundbreaking bilingual anthology that gathers poems by 84 women writing in Persian from the tenth century to the twenty‑first. Edited and translated by scholar Dick Davis, it arranges work in three chronological sections—medieval (c. 10th–15th centuries), early modern (16th–18th centuries) and modern/contemporary (19th century to today)—with each poet introduced by a short biographical note, revealing how women’s voices shift from intimate love lyrics to politically charged reflections on war, patriarchy, exile and censorship.