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“The popularity in the US of Rumi, a 13th-century Turkish poet, is a tragic irony, as the order of Sufi dervishes he founded is banned at home.” So quoteth the New Pages weblog, which points to the Guardian’s story “What Goes Round.” I first came to Rumi, the Coleman Barks translated Rumi, via a John Lane letter in the 1980s sometime, when people still wrote letters, good long letters.