TY  - GEN
AU  - Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
AU  - Barks, Coleman
TI  - The essential Rumi
SN  - 0062509594
U1  - 891.5511 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperOne
KW  - Sufi poetry - Persian
N1  - Table of contents:

1.The tavern: Whoever brought me here will have to take me home
2.Bewilderment: I have five things to say
3.Emptiness and silence: The night air 
4.Spring giddiness: Stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy 
5.Feeling separation: Don't come near me 
6.Controlling the desire-body: How did you kill your rooster, Husam? 
7.Sohbet: Meetings on the riverbank 
8.Being a lover: The sunrise ruby 
9.The pickaxe: Getting to the treasure beneath the foundation 
10.Art as flirtation with surrender: Wanting new silk harp strings 
11.Union: gnats inside the wind 
12.The sheik: I have such a teacher 
13.Recognizing elegance: Your reasonable father 
14.The howling necessity: Cry out in your weakness 
15.Teaching stories: How the unseen world works 
16.Rough metaphors: More teaching stories 
17.Solomon poems: The far mosque 
18.The three fish: Gamble everything for love 
19.Jesus poems: The population of the world 
20.In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: More teaching stories 
21.Beginning and end: The stories that frame the Mathnawi 
22.Green ears everywhere: Children running through 
23.Being woven: Communal practice 
24.Wished-for song: Secret practices 
25.Majesty: This we have now 
26.Evolutionary intelligence: Say I am you 
27.The turn: Dance in your blood.


N2  - This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.

Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever.

The Essential Rumi continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062509598/the-essential-rumi-reissue
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