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The essential Rumi / translated by Coleman Barks ; with Reynold Nicholson, A.J. Arberry, John Moyne.
A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062509586
- ISBN: 9780062509581
- ISBN: 9780062509598
- ISBN: 0062509594
- Physical Description: xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: New expanded edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperOne, [2004]
- Copyright: ©2004
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in 1995. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The tavern: whoever brought me here will have to take me home -- Bewilderment: I have five things to say -- Emptiness and silence: the night air -- Spring giddiness: Stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy -- Feeling separation: don't come near me -- Controlling the desire-body: how did you kill your rooster, Husam? -- Sohbet: meetings on the riverbank -- Being a lover: the sunrise ruby -- The pickaxe: getting to the treasure beneath the foundation -- Art as flirtation with surrender: wanting new silk harp strings -- Union: Gnats inside the wind -- The Sheikh: I have such a teacher -- Recognizing elegance: your reasonable father -- The howling necessity: cry out in your weakness -- Teaching stories: how the unseen world works -- rough metaphors: more teaching stories -- Solomon poems: The far mosque -- The three fish: gamble everything for love -- Jesus poems: the population of the world -- In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: more teaching stories -- Beginning and end: the stories that frame the Mathnawi -- Green ears everywhere: children running through -- Being woven: communal practice -- Wished-for-song: secret practices -- Majesty: this we have now -- Evolutionary intelligence: say I am you -- The turn: dance in your blood -- A new section: the pistachio passport. |
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| Genre: | poetry. Poetry. Translations. Poetry. Poésie. |
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