Love Divine
Yunus EmreThe book introduces English translations of forty devotional poems by Yunus Emre, the first representative of the classical Turkish mystic literature. Translated from the Turkish original, words and imagery in these poems revolve around divine love and spiritual quest. An introduction narrates the legendary life of Emre followed by an explanatory note on the metaphoric use of language in his poetry contributes to in-depth understanding. Yunus Emre’s Sufi poetry reinforces love and peace in the mind of a reader living in a world of conflict, strife and misunderstanding.
Suna-Marija Franzen, translator of this book, is writing her doctoral thesis on Turkish literature at University of Helsinki. She has earlier translated Yunus Emre's poems also into Finnish and has researched Yunus' mysticism in her masters thesis. She is of Finnish-Turkish origin and presently live in Germany.