Author: Fideler, Sabrineh & Fideler, David

I have appreciated the highly original, solid, and beautiful work of David Fideler for many years. Love's Alchemy could come only from his wide knowledge and sense of aesthetics. In its musical words, the Sufi poets paint a delicate word-bridge between the earthly and the spiritual, and they charm us, wakening the human urge to transcend ourselves. -Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Dark Nights of the Soul"For several years, the thirteenth-century mystical poet Jalaluddin Rumi has been the bestselling poet in the United States. But he is just one voice in Sufi poetry, the timeless ?expression of Persian mysticism. The poems and epigrams collected in Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition represent all of the major poets (including Rumi) of this magnificent artform. ? ?In Love's Alchemy, translators David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful yet elegant translations from 150 of the best poems written in ruba'i form: concise, tightly focused meditations that span only four lines, but which reveal worlds of meaning. The poems explore many aspects of human life and the spiritual path, but they center on the liberating power of love. Also included are an extensive introduction, a glossary, and notes that place these wonderful poems in cultural, historical, and religious context.