Gold by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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New York Review of Books

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by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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A 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.

Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori's new translations of Rumi as "the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvelous poet in English."
Book Details
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
ISBN:
9781681375335
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Published Date:
2022-03-08
Language:
English
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About Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Known in the West simply as Rumi, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was a Persian poet and Sufi mystic. He was born at Balkh, in what is now Afghanistan. His father, the scholar and theologian Baha' al-Din-e Valad, was summoned in 1229 to teach in the Seljuk capital of Konya, and Rumi eventually took over the post. Meeting the mystic Shams al-Din Tabrizi in 1244 changed his work entirely; after Shams disappeared in 1248 he composed the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, more than forty thousand verses, and dictated the 64,000 lines of the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi to the scribe Husam Chelebi. He died at Konya in December 1273. He wrote in Persian; the volumes here are modern English translations.

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