Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Melody Moezzi on The Rumi Prescription

Melody Moezzi is most recently author of the book The Rumi
Prescription, in which she talks about how the poetry of Rumi
became a lifeline for her, helping her to gain wisdom and insight
in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock with the help
of her father, a lifelong fan of Rumi’s poetry. We covered so
much in our Growing Up Irooni interview, from the controversy of
Coleman Barks and why Melody is actually a big fan of his work,
to learning Persian poetry in its original language, to becoming
an artist in a culture that isn’t always the most hospitable to
being an artist as a profession, to discussing mental health in a
culture that isn’t always the most hospital to talking about
mental health, and so much more. 


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The Rumi Prescription book at Book Shop

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