Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
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By Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks Barks’s selection of Rumi’s love poetry, arranged by the kind of love it describes rather than by chronology: longing, union, grief, absence, and the friendship with Shams of Tabriz that produced most of…
| Age Group | Adult (18+) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
Description
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By Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Barks’s selection of Rumi’s love poetry, arranged by the kind of love it describes rather than by chronology: longing, union, grief, absence, and the friendship with Shams of Tabriz that produced most of it.
Barks works from literal translations rather than the Persian, and renders Rumi into plain American free verse, which is why these versions have reached far more readers than any scholarly edition.
First published 2003
