Detailing the normal and human background of Rapa Nui—more typically recognized as Easter Island—this extraordinary collection of poems and pictures links together the historical inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with frequent concerns and hopes of the current.

Born Jalal advertisement-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet recognized as Rumi (named following the city wherever he lived) composed operates of mysticism and desire that impressed a great number of people in his own time and through the centuries.