If yoiu're going to read a translation of Hafez then this feels like the best available. I cannot say as I speak no Persian and am never likely to. As poems the translations read quite well, which is unusual for most translations, and occasionally are quite brilliant. There are also translations of two other Shirazi poets.

“Not every eye can gaze at the sun
Not every drop can reach the sea”

- Jahan Malek Khatun asking her listeners to accept her faults as a poet.

I enjoyed her poems the most (badass Persian princess poet??! Say more), and Obayd-e was crudely entertaining. Hafez resonated less but it’s funny how drinking is such a pastime through the centuries.

3.5/5
I delved into this book of poetry mainly to read the work of hafez but was completely taken aback by the poetry by jahan malek khatun, her poems are hauntingly beautiful and poignant. There was some lovely poetry in this book!

I purchased this book because of one wonderful poem by Jahan Malek Khatun, but the book itself is wonderful. The introduction to fourteenth century Persian literature was as intriguing as poems that followed.
I did like Jahan’s poems the most, honest and furious and tempting, and maybe I’m biased but it’s so clear they were written by a woman, especially in contrast with the poems of Hafez.
I wish someone could read to me the originals, accompanied by the music - to feel the rhythm, the melody, to understand the rhymes. The world would brighten up a bit, I feel.

So many of these are so very, very timely to read in COVID-19 isolation.
At the same time, I'm glad the obscene poems by Obayd are the shortest section. :)

Helpful notes kept me reading when I couldn't understand the subtleties in the unfamiliar forms.