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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE book you need to read on Hafiz, April 9, 2007
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This review is from: Fifty Poems of Hafiz (Paperback)
Not sure why amazon chose to present the opening sentences from this book because they in no way give any clue to its content. Not sure also about the numerous other books on Hafiz that are out and about and I would suspect that similar to Rumi they are so called 'new translations' (read re-writes of Arberry and others) or simply poems with no evidence to prove where they were taken from.

This on the other hand is (as the title says) a collection of 50 poems of the great Persian poet Hafiz presented both in Persian and English well sourced, quoting the original manuscripts and books used and features excellent notes to both the translation and the Persian text.

I would say if you really want to read the works of Hafiz and are concerned enough to want to know that you are actually reading Hafiz and not some opinionated rewrite then this is the book to buy.
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Fifty Poems of Hafiz
Fifty Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz (Paperback - March 20, 1995)
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