It is an awesome book, but reading the first few lines of your copy makes me really appreciate the flavor of my mid-century American translation. >I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an ***unattractive*** man. I ***believe*** my liver is diseased. However, I ***know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me.*** vs. >I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an ***unpleasant*** man. I ***think*** my liver is diseased. However, I ***don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me.*** Translation is obviously a very tricky game when it comes to literature and poetry, especially when you are attempting to translate from a non-Germanic non-Romance language into English. Do you translate as accurately as possible, going about it very technically? Or should you try to impart the spirit of it, knowing a word-for-word translation would lose much of its intending meaning? Should you ignore idionyms, or try to substitute them for something your lingual audience will understand? I still have a fantasy about learning medieval Farsi, so I could read Rumi in his original dialect, and decide whether or not he truly was the greatest Poet who ever lived.