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The Tavern of the Heart: The Untold Life of Hafiz of Shiraz, Persia's Poet of Love, Longing, and the Divine
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ISBN13: 9798185771198
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the ache in your chest was never the problem? There is a kind of wanting that arrives before you have any language for it - for a person you cannot have, a home you cannot keep, a God who has gone quiet at exactly the moment you needed Him loudest. You have likely spent years trying to manage that wanting, apologize for it, or wait it out. Hafiz of Shiraz was a baker's son who fell for a girl above his station, memorized the Quran to be near her family's world, and spent forty freezing nights awake at a Sufi shrine trying to burn the longing out of himself. It didn't work. Instead, it made him. He became the most beloved poet Persia ever produced - and nearly got denied a grave for it, because the same clergy who feared his wine-soaked verses about love and God could never quite prove he meant them as sin. This is the untold, richly imagined life behind the world's most quoted lines of Persian poetry: a story of court favor won and lost, a decade of exile, a legendary standoff with the conqueror Tamerlane, and a burial dispute that only his own poetry could resolve. Recognize the wanting in your own chest as evidence of a soul still fully alive, not a flaw to apologize for
Watch a poor, unremarkable boy turn poverty, grief, and an impossible love into a language that outlasted empires
Feel what it costs - and what it gives back - to tell the truth in a room that could destroy you for it
Discover the real history behind the poems that inspired Goethe, Emerson, and seven centuries of readers who still open Hafiz's Divan for guidance
Walk beside a friendship that outlasts every throne, exile, and conquest in the book This is a book for anyone who has ever wanted something so completely it frightened them, and been told, gently or otherwise, that the wanting itself was the thing to fix. The angels are still knocking at that door. They have been since before he wrote it down. Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Feel what it costs - and what it gives back - to tell the truth in a room that could destroy you for it
Discover the real history behind the poems that inspired Goethe, Emerson, and seven centuries of readers who still open Hafiz's Divan for guidance
Walk beside a friendship that outlasts every throne, exile, and conquest in the book This is a book for anyone who has ever wanted something so completely it frightened them, and been told, gently or otherwise, that the wanting itself was the thing to fix. The angels are still knocking at that door. They have been since before he wrote it down. Open the first page. The rest will find you.
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