Speak Only of The Moon: A New Translation of Rumi (40) (Essential Translations Series) - Softcover

9781771832021: Speak Only of The Moon: A New Translation of Rumi (40) (Essential Translations Series)

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ISBN 10: 1771832029 ISBN 13: 9781771832021

Publisher: Guernica Editions, 2017

As readers everywhere of the Sufi poet Rumi know, his thought is at once profound and perennially fresh. It is sometimes forgotten, however, by those who rely on translations, that he was a poet most at home in a poetry of constraints. The intention of this book is to give some emphasis to his poetry, particularly his intricate use of rhyme while bearing in mind that, were we to follow Rumi all the way, it might appear artificial. Remembering the constraints of both Persian and English, we have endeavoured to present a Rumi, one of the great lights of a brilliant poetic tradition, in an English that, despite the hazards of translation, comes close to our great forebear, in all his lightness, playfulness, and ineffable joy.

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About the Author

Poet, literary critic, and translator E.D. Blodgett is the author of more than 20 collections of poetry and the winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. In 1999, Jacques Brault won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for Transfiguration (1998), a translation of Blodgett's poetry. On July 1, 2007 Blodgett was appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton. He is currently professor emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Manijeh Mannani is Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Divine Deviants: The Dialectics of Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi (Peter Lang, 2007) and Najv?: Selected poems of E.D. Blodgett in Persian (Nasl-i Nuv?n, 2006). She is the co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture (Athabasca University Press, 2012), and Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature.

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