RUMI’S USE OF MOVING COLORS AND SHAPES IN THE DIVAN-I SHAMS
by Fatemeh Keshavarz
In The Kaleidoscope of Love, Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz explores the dynamism and sense of play in what she calls Rumi’s ‘kaleidoscopic poems’, providing a sense of the way Rumi used them to portray what is hard to put into words, namely the plurality and the fleeting nature in the experience of love. Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz is a professor of Persian and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Washington University-St. Louis. Among Keshavarz’s works is her book “Jasmine and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran.”
(Artwork by Martin Harris)
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