Rumi: Gold Various Poets Tagore is a master

Tagore is a master

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Rumi: Gold Various Poets Tagore is a masterA selection of original translations of the great Persian poet by an up and coming American translator and musician. Up until the age of 40, the 13th century Persian sage Rumi was chiefly known as a preacher and a man of serious and sober views. At that point, however, an encounter with the poet Shams of Tabriz left him utterly transformed. Rumi became a poet himself, a poet in singleminded pursuit of ecstatic illumination and liberation whose poetry