The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems - Softcover

Barks, Coleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060604522 ISBN 13: 9780060604523

Publisher: HarperOne, 2002

Synopsis

The Soul of Rumi is renowned poet Coleman Barks' first major assemblage of newly translated Rumi poems since his bestselling The Essential Rumi.Coleman Barks presents entirely new translations of Rumi's poems, published for the first time in The Soul of Rumi. The poems range over the breadth of Rumi's themes: silence, emptiness, play, God, peace, grief, sexuality, music, to name just a few. But the focus is on the ecstatic experience of human and divine love and their inseparability, conveyed with Rumi's signature passion, daring, and insights into the human heart and the heart's longings.

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Review:

"The gold of Rumi pours down through Coleman's words. The words leap off the page and dance!"--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"The best of Rumi's beautiful and challenging imagery."--Booklist

"Coleman Barks's Rumi translations [make] Rumi's raptures accessible in language at once ordinary and lyrical."--Yoga Journal

"Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming."--Jerry Stahl, in Shout NY

About the Author:

Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers' PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words. He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060604522
• ISBN 13: 9780060604523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448