Rumi: the Book of Love : Poems of Ecstasy and Longing Hardcover - 2003
by Barks, Coleman
- Used
Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a definitive collection of poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who makes him sing anew. Illustrations throughout.
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Details
- Title Rumi: the Book of Love : Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
- Author Barks, Coleman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, San Francisco
- Date January 7, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4879783-6
- ISBN 9780060523169 / 0060523166
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.54 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
From the rear cover
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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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2003, Page 836
- BookPage, 02/01/2003, Page 14
- Library Journal, 12/15/2002, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 12/09/2002, Page 80
