- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and References
- Introduction: Life and Work
- Persian Women Poets
- A Historical Sketch of Zhāle’s Time
- Zhāle’s Poetry
- Themes in Zhāle’s Poetry: Her Husband
- The Position of Women
- Living in a Harem
- Zhāle as a Mother
- The Samovar
- The Mirror as a Companion
- The Curler as a Companion
- Conclusion
- Zhāle’s Collected Poetry
- A Message to Women of the Future
- What Would Have Been?
- Women and the Mirror
- Depiction of Existence
- Far from a Child
- The Difference between Men and Women
- Love and Benevolence
- To Unborn Child
- On Child’s Death
- Reproach to My Husband
- The Dungeon of the Harem
- A Mother’s Duty
- The Rights of Men and Women
- The Night of Apprehensions
- Love
- Conversation with a Sewing Machine
- Advice for the Sisters
- Complaint against the Comb
- Answering the Letter of a Friend
- Sharing Pain with the Samovar
- Mother’s Love
- Longing for Love
- A Favor from the Mirror
- A Childish Judgment
- Jealous
- The Widow
- A Memory of the Time I Was Married
- Sharing Pain with a Mirror
- A Picture in Golden Frame
- Claiming Chastity
- A Husband, Not an Intimate
- A Fitting Husband
- A Love Poem
- Thoughts of a Concubine
- Insult
- Throwing Insults
- After My Husband’s Death
- The Lover of Love
- Predicting Women’s Freedom
- Impossible Love
- Confession
- Bandit
- Hair Curler
- Message to the Unborn
- An Unstable Wish
- Problem
- A Serious Joke
- The Trace of Oh
- Far from the Child
- Cutting the Hand
- Bidding Farewell
- A Firm Answer
- Works Cited
- Index
ILEX SERIES
Ilex Series 14
Mirror of Dew
The Poetry of Ālam-tāj Zhāle Qā’em-Maqāmi
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Publication Date: 07/07/2014
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