Book 2, Solomon Poems : Chapter 2, Beginning to the Turn Summary

These are the next several sections of poems in this great book. They are labeled, in the 2004 Newly Expanded Version as sections twenty-one through twenty-seven inclusive. Each, like all the ones before, has a short briefing provided prior to the group of poems under one heading. The first of these is about the Mathnawi. This the six volume set of poems that he wrote when his personal companion was actually one of his students and also his scribe. Cheleb may well have been one of the best students, although this is not abundantly clear. All of the poetry that refers to Husam Chelebi directly comes from the poet's later years.

There is the standard note from the translator Coleman Barks. It is here that he describes what he refers...