About the Book: Rumi: A New Translation
Marked by lyrical beauty and spiritual insight, a deep understanding of human
suffering that coexists with rapturous abandon, the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi
continue to be relevant almost eight centuries after they were composed, with
contemporary audiences finding new meanings in them. Rumis poems bring together
the divine and the human, the mystical and the corporeal to create a vivid
kaleidoscope of poetic images.
While many recent translations have sought to give Rumis poetry a certain hippy
sensibility, robbing it of its true essence, Farrukh Dhondy attempts to bring
out the beauty and sensibility of the verses whilst imitating the metre