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The essential Rumi

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: HarperOne 2004 New YorkDescription: 345 pISBN:
  • 0062509594
  • 9780062312747
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • R8E8 891.5511
Summary: 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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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.

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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