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this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol

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[-] Canis_latrans@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

Really thought this was going to be about Daniel Ladinsky, who wrote multiple books that pose as translations of the poetry of Hafiz, but actually if you read the forward it is merely poetry "inspired" by Hafiz, he claims Hafiz appeared to him in a dream with these poems. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/14/fake-hafez-how-a-supreme-persian-poet-of-love-was-erased

Which was really deflating for me because those Hafiz "poems" helped get me through some angsty times in my young adulthood.