The Poetry of Rumi - Haleh Liza Gafori

On Thursday 15th December, we have the pleasure of being joined by translator and musician Haleh Liza Gafori where she will present her translation of the poetic works of Rumi, entitled "GOLD".

To register, please use the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VzM-AlUJSxqMyyiVcMyuqw  "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 is meant to induce a similar revelation in his audience, bringing them to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. Rumi's poetry is a masterpiece of world literature to which readers in many languages continue to return for inspiration and succour as well as aesthetic delight. This new translation preserves the radical intelligence and the ecstatic drama of poems that are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom."