Pay in 4 interest-free payments of $21.99 Learn more
Ships within 48 hours · Estimated delivery Jul 27 - Aug 1
The Boatmen of Lao-lung
deadly serious
The survivor of countless controversies
As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed
Rumi: Gold Various Poets The Boatmen of Lao-lungA selection of original translations of the great Persian poet by an up and coming American translator and musician. 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