Gold Outside Texts and then a new chain

and then a new chain begins

Hiroaki Sato

A quorum of crows will be your witness

Klein dood konijn is bedoeld voor poëzielezers

But there does not yet exist a representative selection spanning her decades of poetic output

Gold Outside Texts and then a new chainRumi (trans. Haleh Liza Gafori) 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 wellas aesthetic delight. This new translation by Haleh Liza Gafori preserves the intelligence and the