The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination
(2021)
Book
Gould, R. R. (2021). The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474484015.001.0001
The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profoun... Read More about The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination.