Gold (New York Review Books Classics) - Literary Fiction Novel for Book Lovers & Collectors - Perfect for Reading, Gifting & Home Library Displays
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Gold (New York Review Books Classics) - Literary Fiction Novel for Book Lovers & Collectors - Perfect for Reading, Gifting & Home Library Displays
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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.”
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This slim volume distills the essence of Rumi and brings his wisdom alive for English readers in a totally new way. Gafori is an American of Persian descent and a native Farsi speaker who grew up hearing Rumi’s poetry and participating in discussions of its meanings. Translating directly from the Farsi has given her insights and freedoms that previous English translations lacked. Much care has been given to how to make Rumi’s words better resonate for today’s readers. Occasionally her choices stop you in your tracks - in a good way - such as the startling use of the modern word “rookie” in the line “It’s the rookies who laugh only when they win.” Gafori’s additional gifts as an editor have pared Rumi down to the bare essentials, truly giving us only the gold in an extremely thoughtful selection of 54 poems. I dip into this volume every day and every day I find something new and inspiring.
