Join New York poet, musician and translator, Haleh Liza Gafori, for a discussion and performance reading of her new translations of the poems of the great Persian mystic, Jalaluddin Rumi.
The writings of Rumi, considered the greatest poet of the Persian language, induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation, bringing serenity, compassion and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature.
Gold Rumi, the new translation by Haleh Liza Gafori, preserves the intelligence and the drama of the original poems, which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom.