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101) Rumi: unseen poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"... a number of Rumi's English translators over the past century were not speakers of Persian and they based their sometimes very free interpretations on earlier translations. With Western audiences in mind, translators also tended to tone down or leave out elements of Persian culture and of Islam in Rumi's work, and hundreds of the prolific poet's works were never made available to English speakers at all. In this new translation -- composed almost...
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