About this Event
Haleh Liza Gafori returns to Reads & Company to celebrate the publication of Water, her latest translation of Rumi’s classic poetry. We had hosted her for the release of Gold, her first published translations of Rumi’s poetry, and it was…unforgettable. Haleh is an amazing speaker and translator, and we can’t wait to have her back. Join us for what will be a beautiful celebration of poetry, language, and wisdom. Copies of Water and Gold will be for sale, and Haleh will be happy to sign yours.
This is a free event and open to all, but we do request that you register.
About Water and Haleh Liza Gafori:
Water expands on Gold, Haleh Liza Gafori's inspired and widely praised translation of the lyric poetry of the Persian mystic Rumi. As in Gold, Gafori renders with fluid grace and moving immediacy these indisputable masterworks of world literature, drawing on the deep well of Rumi’s work to bring out the worldly wit and wisdom that accompany his otherworldly summons. Behold the divine within and without, he tells us. Question the gnawing hunger for material possessions, fame, and fortune, and the fear of emptiness that drives it. Muster the soul, and experience a more compassionate and liberated state of mind. An eco-poet before his time, Rumi celebrates the immensity and wonder of the natural world while warning us of the havoc that greed and the pursuit of power wreak upon us and our world. His flights of dazzling imagery open up heart-stopping glimpses of the divine, challenging readers to wake from oblivion, and above all, to surrender to the transformative power of Love.
Gafori is an acclaimed vocalist and musician as well as a gifted linguist and poet, and in her translations Rumi's poetry sings and beckons as nowhere else. Hers is the work, as the poet Marilyn Hacker has said, "of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvelous poet in English.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reads & Company, 234 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, United States
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