Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)

Farrukh Dhondy

A New Translation

Rumi

Coleman Barks

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. 'There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.' Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds – erotic, divine, friendship –and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging 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 – these poems cover all 'the magnificent regions of the heart'.

Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Rumi: The Book of Love

Amena Elkayal

4.5
In a beautiful & very lyrical translation by Coleman Barks, rumi discusses all types of love starting from platonic love between friends to Devine and patriotic love. I loved rumi's philosophy and how he interpreted different philosophical concepts. Will definitely reread it someday (So many great quotes tho)

Christopher Wheeler

Ashutosh

2007 is the "Year of Rumi," and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionate ambassador, to mark the milestone of this great poet's 800th birthday? Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his thirty years of translating Rumi, has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any form. The result is this beautiful edition titled Rumi: Bridge to the Soul. The "bridge" in the title is a reference to the Khajou Bridge in Isphahan, Iran, which Barks visited with Robert Bly in May of 2006—a trip that in many ways prompted this book. The "soul bridge" also suggests Rumi himself, who crosses cultures and religions and brings us all together to listen to his words, regardless of origin or creed. Open this book and let Rumi's poetry carry you into the interior silence and joy of the spirit, the place that unites conscious knowing with a deeper, more soulful understanding.

Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart

Rumi: Bridge to the Soul

sera

Danja Tesic

Rumi A New Translation

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