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Title: Lost in translation
Review: Jelaludin Rumi is, as we all know a true poet of the heart.Although, when his passages were originally recorded in persian we must be reminded that our texts we now purchase in book stores have become hazy and sometimes unclear from the inter-language transformation.In this volume, Coleman Barks takes Nicholoson's translations from latin to english. Nicholoson translated Rumi's poetry into a more literal form. I suggest that in reading a volume of work translated to something as closely literal as possible to the original you will recieve more of a true insight to Rumi's thoughts.Another good source to defintly own by Rumi would be "Open Secret : Versions of Rumi"
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