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Lädt ... Rumi: Unseen Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)von Rumi
Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  evil_cyclist | Mar 16, 2020 |   I absolutely adore RUMI. I can go as far back as high school and coming across his Big Red Book collection, and was hooked that point on. The book is well written, taking the reader on a beautiful journey. RUMI will forever live, so long as Poetry exists. Available everywhere Sept 10th, 2019 (  ) tomasitoreads | Aug 19, 2019 | Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A collection of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. Rumi (1207-1273) was trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumi's poetry has long been popular with contemporary Western audiences because of the way it combines the sacred and the sensual, describing divine love in rapturously human terms. However, 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 entirely of untranslated gems from Rumi's vast ouevre--Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz aim to achieve greater fidelity to the originals while still allowing Rumi's lyric exuberance to shine. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.5511Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Persian languages Modern Persian Persian poetry 1000–1389Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.33)
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~Rumi
Rumi: Unseen Poems translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz is a modern and more accurate translation of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic. Many previous collections relied on old translations and translations that appealed more directly to the Western reader. This collection preserves the Islamic side of the poet. The moon plays a central role in the religion and the poetry of Rumi. There are poems where the moon is jealous of one's beauty, the splitting of the moon, and a rooftop observation signaling the beginning of Ramadan.
Didn't I tell you last night, "Your beautiful face is beyond compare."
The moon jealous of your beauty was torn in two
Wine, drinking, and drunkenness are repeated throughout the collection as a metaphor. Alcohol is to be avoided because of the way it influences people and their sensibility. Matching the strength of alcohol is love. Rumi compares the feeling of love to that of wine, something that lifts one well above the tediousness of the day. It is a powerful feeling.
My face is a hundred times brighter when I see your face.
My soul is a hundred times happier when your soul is near.
The direct translation of the original texts gives a definitive view of the poet. His other writing has been embraced, edited, and mistranslated to fit into the Western New Age movements. Using unpublished poems, the translators attempt to preserve the real Rumi complete with his religious views. The final result is simply fantastic poetry with an Islamic tone. The poet, after all, was a life long scholar of Islam and the Koran.
This collection will be printed in the small easy to carry around Everyman's Library Pocket Poet hardcover bindings that also look well on one's bookshelf. The Pocket Poets series runs nearly 120 different collections of poetry organized by poet or subject.
Available September 10, 2019 (