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A beautiful collectors hardcover of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. AN EVERYMANS LIBRARY POCKET POET
Rumi (1207-1273) was trained in Sufisma mystic tradition within Islamand founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumis poetry has long been popular with contemporary Western audiences because of the way it combines the sacred and the sensual, describing divine love in rapturously human terms.
However, a number of Rumis English translators over the past century were not speakers of Persian and they based their sometimes very free interpretations on earlier translations. With Western audiences in mind, translators also tended to tone down or leave out elements of Persian culture and of Islam in Rumis work, and hundreds of the prolific poets works were never made available to English speakers at all.
In this new translationcomposed almost entirely of untranslated gems from Rumis vast ouevreBrad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz aim to achieve greater fidelity to the originals while still allowing Rumis lyric exuberance to shine.
Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Author: Rumi
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published: 09/10/2019
Series: Everymans Library Pocket Poets
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.30h x 4.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781101908105
Language: English
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