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The Unseen Poems (Hardcover)
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The Unseen Poems (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
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List price R320
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Discovery Miles 2 500
You Save R70 (22%)
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Rumi: Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman
Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been
translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer
Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz. The
thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism, a
mystic tradition within Islam. He founded the Mevlevi Order, often
known as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of
their spiritual devotion. His poetry combines the sacred and the
sensual, expressing both rapturous divine love, and aching human
love for his companion and teacher, Shams of Tabriz. It has long
been popular in the West, never more so than in the last
twenty-five years, when a new wave of free translations introduced
him to an ever-widening audience. However, some of these recent
translations have been more in the nature of interpretations by
writers who are not Persian speakers. Cultural and Islamic
references central to an understanding of Rumi's poetry have been
toned down or omitted. And so vast was Rumi's output that earlier
scholarly translators were obliged to be selective, leaving a rich
vein of verse still unmined. From this Gooch and Mortaz have made a
selection of ghazals (short lyric poems) and rubaiyat (quatrains),
aiming in their own translations to achieve fidelity to the
originals while preserving all Rumi's lyric exuberance. This book
makes a perfect companion to the first Everyman volume of Rumi,
which presents the very best of the twentieth-century translations.
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