Speak Only of the Moon A New Translation of Rumi Volume 40

Poet, literary critic, and translator E.D. Blodgett is the author of more than 20 collections of poetry and the winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. In 1999, Jacques Brault won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for Transfiguration (1998), a translation of Blodgett's poetry. On July 1, 2007 Blodgett was appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton. He is currently professor emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Manijeh Mannani is Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Divine Deviants: The Dialectics of Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi (Peter Lang, 2007) and Najv?: Selected poems of E.D. Blodgett in Persian (Nasl-i Nuv?n, 2006). She is the co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture (Athabasca University Press, 2012), and Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature.