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Water the lemon captivates in theA follow up to her ground breaking translations of Rumi in Gold, poet and musician Haleh Liza Gafori translates a new selection of work by the great Persian mystic that will muster the soul and stir the spirit. "Gafori's selection boasts idiosyncratic connections and ear catching tempo changes, from sequences and litanies to unimprovably terse epigrams: 'Beloved, when your sweetness rains down the price of rock candy plummets.'" Christopher Spaide,