CRAZY AS WE ARE

Translated from the Persian. Selected Poems From The Divan-E Shams-E Tabrizi of Jalaluddin Rumi is a collection of forty-eight translations alongside the original Persian, copious notes and an introduction, all by R.A. Nicholson. Nicholson, a life-long student and devotee of Rumi, presents with this collection his selected favorites from Rumi’s love poems. “The complete Divan-E Shams consists of about 3,200 ghazals (odes or sonnets) and ghasidehs (elegies); and about 2,000 ruba’is (quatrains) and tarjibands (Persian ballads).”— IBEX Publishers