{"product_id":"9781841598161","title":"The Unseen Poems","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Rumi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMiddle East\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 October 2019 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library POCKET POETS' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e165 x 114 x 15mm | 210g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRumi: Unseen Poems – the second volume of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series – is a treasury of poems which have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enever been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirteenth-century Persian poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRumi was trained in Sufism, a mystic tradition within Islam. He founded the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMevlevi Order, often known as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas part of their spiritual devotion. His poetry combines the sacred and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esensual, expressing both rapturous divine love, and aching human love for his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecompanion and teacher, Shams of Tabriz. It has long been popular in the West,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enever more so than in the last twenty-five years, when a new wave of free\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etranslations introduced him to an ever-widening audience.  However, some of these recent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etranslations have been more in the nature of interpretations by writers who\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare not Persian speakers. Cultural and Islamic references central to an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderstanding of Rumi's poetry have been toned down or omitted. And so vast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas Rumi's output that earlier scholarly translators were obliged to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eselective, leaving a rich vein of verse still unmined. From this Gooch and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMortaz have made a selection of ghazals (short lyric poems) and rubaiyat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(quatrains), aiming in their own translations to achieve fidelity to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoriginals while preserving all Rumi's lyric exuberance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book makes a perfect companion to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst Everyman volume of Rumi, which presents the very best of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etwentieth-century translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rumi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58288475275589,"sku":"9781841598161","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781841598161.jpg?v=1781601079","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781841598161","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}