Rumi A New Translation of Selected Poems

Name: Rumi A New Translation of Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9781611457834

ISBN-10: 1611457831

ISBN-13: 9781611457834

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rumi, Farrukh Dhondy

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Championed by the likes of Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak Chopra, Rumi has won such a following in this country that a few years ago he was proclaimed our bestselling poet. Collections of his poetry have sold in the hundreds of thousands. But translations that have popularized the work of this thirteenth-century Sufi poet and mystic, giving it a sort of post-hippie, New Age appeal, have also strayed from its essence. In this new translation, Farrukh Dhondy seeks to recover both the lyrical beauty and the spiritual essence of the original verse. In poems of love and devotion, rapture and suffering, loss and yearning for oneness, Dhondy has rediscovered the Islamic mystic of spiritual…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 5.40" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Farrukh Dhondy is an Indian-born, former political activist & now writer of children books, plays & television series. He was a friend of C.L.R. James, who lived in his house for a time in London. Since 1984 Dhondy has worked as the Commissioning Editor for Multicultural Programmes at Channel Four (BBC).