Beloved of poets, mystics and lovers, ‘eshq is the Farsi word for passionate love, whether of the devotee for the Divine or the shared embrace of lovers in the garden. Here the calligraphed Persian word is repeated in a rondel … Read More
Coleman Barks has done a great deal to bring the work of Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī—the poet Rumi—into the forefront of English-language poetry. The published volumes of Barks do not provide good citations of the original sources for the … Read More
