- Visions of Persia
- Elio Brancaforte
- This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan. Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history, and arts to the German-speaking public; his frank appraisal of Persian customs foreshadows the enlightened spirit of the eighteenth century (influencing Montesquieu's Persian Letters as well as Goethe's West-Eastern Divan) and prepares the way for German Romanticism's infatuation with Persian poetry.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
- Walking with the Wind
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Translator
- Michael C. Beard, Translator
- This bilingual edition of verse by the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami includes English translations of more than two hundred crystalline, haiku-like poems, together with their Persian originals. The translators contribute an illuminating introduction to Kiarostami's poetic enterprise, examining its relationship to his unique cinematic corpus and to the traditions of classic and contemporary Persian poetry.
- Paperback 2002