Rumi: the Book of Love : Poems of Ecstasy and Longing Paperback - 2005
by Barks, Coleman
- Used
Rumi's incomparable poems of love and lovers are translated by the poet who introduced him to a wide American audience.
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- Title Rumi: the Book of Love : Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
- Author Barks, Coleman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 206
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2005-01-18
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP92663475
- ISBN 9780060750503 / 0060750502
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 6.32 x 0.71 in (20.27 x 16.05 x 1.80 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Holiday: Valentine's Day
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Jalal al-Din Rumi
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002032700
- Dewey Decimal Code 891.551
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Summary
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From the rear cover
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′.
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 02/01/2005, Page 85
