Wine of Reunion by Rumi and translated by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, Anthony A. Lee

This is poetry from Iran.

Wine of Reunion by Rumi translated by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, Anthony A. Lee is published by Michigan State University Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781611862638E12.

Wine of Reunion, by Rumi and translated by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, Anthony A. Lee from Arabic, brings Arabic-language poetry from Iran into English through Rumi’s devotional Arabic-Persian inheritance, reunion, and the spiritual intoxication suggested by the title. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is the pressure of a voice that has already changed the weather around it. I would read it for wine, union, longing, and the old lyric problem of how to speak toward the beloved without shrinking the divine, not as a fixed lesson about Iran. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Wine of Reunion belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers a devotional classic refracted through the language of return and appetite.

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