Rumi’s Birds of Wonder - Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī

The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, the world’s most popular poet Rumi has left us thousands of lyric ghazals in Persian, covering every imaginable note and nuance of human experience. Choosing from this multitude of songs is a daunting and revealing task that translator Iraj Anvar has done to perfection in this new collection. In this volume, our Iranian-born translator has opted for the ecstatic, “drunken,” love-struck Rumi whose intoxicating rhythms, breathless urgency, and dizzying epiphanies of... Zobrazit více