Gold
by Rumi
Buy on AmazonA vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent. Rumi’s poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for inspiration and succor, as wellas aesthetic delight. This new translation by Haleh Liza Gafori preserves the intelligence and the drama of the poems, which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom.…
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"A dazzling selection of his poetry, including some never previously alive in English, appears in Gold ( public library ), newly translated and inspirited by poet and musician Haleh Liza Gafori ."
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