Rumi became a poet himself, a poet in single-minded pursuit of ecstatic illumination and liberation whose work is meant to induce a similar revelation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. His poetry is a masterpiece of world literature to which readers in many languages continue to return for inspiration and succour as well as aesthetic delight. This new translation preserves the radical intelligence and the ecstatic drama of poems that are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom. Marilyn Hacker, one of America's finest contemporary poets, praises Haleh Liza Gafori's new translations of Rumi as "the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamoured reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvellous poet in English."
| ISBN: | 9781681375335 |
| Publication date: | 8th March 2022 |
| Author: | Jalal alDin Rumi |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
Rumi became a poet himself, a poet in single-minded pursuit of ecstatic illumination and liberation whose work is meant to induce a similar revelation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. His poetry is a masterpiece of world literature to which readers in many languages continue to return for inspiration and succour as well as aesthetic delight. This new translation preserves the radical intelligence and the ecstatic drama of poems that are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom. Marilyn Hacker, one of America's finest contemporary poets, praises Haleh Liza Gafori's new translations of Rumi as "the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamoured reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvellous poet in English."
Gold features in the following genres: Poetry
Gold is available in Paperback
Gold was written by Jalal alDin Rumi and published by New York Review Books
Gold has 96 pages
Yes it is part of New York Review Books Classics series
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