He ultimately tackles 248 ghazals out of a Divan total of nearly 500. Squires divvies up the ghazals under 10 section headings: Love, The Garden, The Tavern, The Lover, The Age, The Beloved, The Faith, The Mystic, The Moralist, and The Poet. Inventive with his translation, Squires allows himself leniency to approximate and transform the traditional ghazal into an updated, Westernized form, at times staggering stanzas on the page, “varying the left hand margin to mark internal shifts and breaks” and approaching rhyme on his own terms: