{"product_id":"unseen-poems","title":"Unseen Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRumi: Unseen Poems\u003c\/i\u003e – the second volume of   Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series – is a treasury of poems which have   never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer   Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz.\u003cbr\u003eThe thirteenth-century Persian poet   Rumi was trained in Sufism, a mystic tradition within Islam. He founded the   Mevlevi Order, often known as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music   as part of their spiritual devotion. His poetry combines the sacred and the   sensual, expressing both rapturous divine love, and aching human love for his   companion and teacher, Shams of Tabriz. It has long been popular in the West,   never more so than in the last twenty-five years, when a new wave of free   translations introduced him to an ever-widening audience.  \u003cbr\u003eHowever, some of these recent   translations have been more in the nature of interpretations by writers who   are not Persian speakers. Cultural and Islamic references central to an   understanding of Rumi''s poetry have been toned down or omitted. And so vast   was Rumi''s output that earlier scholarly translators were obliged to be   selective, leaving a rich vein of verse still unmined. From this Gooch and   Mortaz have made a selection of ghazals (short lyric poems) and rubaiyat   (quatrains), aiming in their own translations to achieve fidelity to the   originals while preserving all Rumi''s lyric exuberance.\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes a perfect companion to the   first Everyman volume of Rumi, which presents the very best of the   twentieth-century translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57412345168254,"sku":"NW9781841598161","price":11.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781841598161.jpg?v=1778770001","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/unseen-poems","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}