Persian Farsi collection.

Editor's preface -- Preface -- Note on transliteration and dating -- Rumi: the person and the poet -- Rumi's lyrical output: historiography and analysis -- The "footless" journey in "nothingness": the power of illogical tropes -- "How sweetly with a kiss is the speech interrupted": Rumi's poetics of silence -- "Wondrous birds grow from the palm of my hand": the dynamism of imagery in the Dīvān -- "A hundred drums are being played in my heart": the intricacies of the sonic game -- "The rhyme and the sophistry, let the flood take them all": the rhythm of childhood in the quest for love -- Turning the funeral into a whirling dance: remapping the generic horizons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.