The Translator of Desires: Poems: 150 (The Lock, Sells^+

The Translator of DesiresPoems\nAuthor(s): Michael Sells, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691181332, 978-0691181332\nSynopsis\nA masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation\n\nThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi [tel] CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this authoritative volume, Michael Sells presents the first complete English translation of this work in more than a century, complete with an introduction, commentary, and a new facing-page critical text of the original Arabic. While grounded in an expert command of the Arabic, this verse translation renders the poems into a natural, contemporary English that captures the stunning beauty and power of Ibn Arabis poems in such lines as A veiled gazelles / an amazing .