"These poems helped me see ways in which the mind, body, spirit and community…resonate[,] forming harmonies and dissonances that are instructive, discomforting, and ineluctable. In reading these poems, I felt myself returning to something I didn’t even know I’d strayed from." —Jason Schneiderman
Words For What Those Men Have Done
"[These] poems are alert to the possibility of redemption, not by transcending injury and sorrow, but by finding meaning there, and connection to others' suffering, and the bedrock truth of desire…" —Richard Hoffman
The Silence Of Men
"...exposes the violence of men toward men, and men toward women, and the tenderness also, the resounding tenderness. [Newman's] is an unremitting empathy, as uncommon as it is necessary." —Robin Behn
For My Son, A Kind Of Prayer
"With passionate emotional and even spiritual attention, Richard Jeffrey Newman captures the primal love between father and son." —Roger Sedarat, author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic
The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
"Newman's excellent translation…open[s] a window on a literary work so embedded in the collective Persian consciousness that it seems a part of the daily life of every Iranian." —Iraj Anvar, translator of Say Nothing: Poems of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Divan-i-Shams-I Tabriz: Forty-eight Ghazals
Selections from Saadi's Bustan
"...it is fortunate that Richard Jeffrey Newman has undertaken this fine and engaging translation of Saadi's Bustan for English readers." —John Moyne, author of A Bird in The Garden of Angels: A Life and Times and An Anthology of Rumi
Selections from Saadi's Gulistan
“I will write a book to instruct and amuse the people, a gulistan, a rose garden, whose petals will not fall away at the touch of autumn’s wind, and in which it will always be spring, immune to the passing of time.” —Saadi of Shiraz
