Love in Another Language

A stream irregularly dammed
With unshaped stones
That swerve the current in its course—

The meaning crammed
Through unfamiliar channels, in new tones,
With a choked force.

from In the Distance (Anvil, 1975), © Dick Davis 1975, used by permission of the author and the publisher

Dick Davis

Dick Davis, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has been hailed by the TLS as ‘our finest translator of Persian ...

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