Haleh Liza Gafori

A follow-up to her ground-breaking translations of Rumi in Gold, poet and musician Haleh Liza Gafori translates a new selection of work by the great Persian mystic that will muster the soul and stir the spirit."Gafori's selection boasts idiosyncratic connections and ear-catching tempo changes, from sequences and litanies to unimprovably terse epigrams: 'Beloved, when your sweetness rains down / the price of rock candy plummets.'" -Christopher Spaide, LitHub "Gafori's translation is exceptional: contemporary, razor-sharp, and lyrically expansive but still unmistakably Rumi .