Rumi The Book Of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing - Hardcover

Barks, Coleman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060523166 ISBN 13: 9780060523169

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003

Synopsis

The Sufi mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi is most beloved for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love in all its forms--erotic, platonic, divine--and Coleman Barks presents the best of them in this delightful and inspiring collection. Rendered with freshness, intensity, and beauty as Barks alone can do, these startling and rich poems range from the "wholeness" one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover's loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship to the immersion in divine love. Rumi, the ultimate poet of love, explores all "the magnificent regions of the heart," and he opens you to the lover within. Coleman Barks has made this medieval, Persian-born (present-day Afghanistan) poetic and spiritual genius the most popular poet in America today. This seductive volume reveals Rumi's charms and depths more than any other.

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Review:

"Another perfect gem from the master translator of Rumi's poetry."--Roger Housden, author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life and Chasing Rumi

"It's a mystery how heart can come into apparently simple English."--Robert Bly, National Book Award-winning poet and translator

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: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060523166
• ISBN 13: 9780060523169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240