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A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations by Daniel Ladinsky, Hafez

irmamari's review against another edition

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5.0

beautiful book filled with poems rearranged so each one describes the time we live in.

snuphkin's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

laurenbdavis's review against another edition

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2.0

I suspect the translator might be a decent poet in his own right, but the liberties he's taken with Hafiz, in an attempt to make him modern, are awful. Shudder.

jemmamorris's review against another edition

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1.0

The author did not keep the translations as accurate as the real poems, instead trying to make them more hip and modern so that it lost the meaning entirely
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