Gold - Rumi

Category: Classic, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Middle East mysticism NYRB Classics

Written by Rumi
Read by Haleh Liza Gafori
Format: M4B
Unabridged

Rumi’s poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for inspiration and succor, as well as aesthetic delight. This new translation by Haleh Liza Gafori preserves the intelligence and the drama of the poems, which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom.

Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s new translations of Rumi as “the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvelous poet in English.”

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
Release date: 03-10-25