Rumi: The Book of Love - Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Zusatztext "It's a mystery how heart can come into apparently simple English." Informationen zum Autor Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi , Rumi: The Big Red Book , The Soul of Rumi , Rumi: The Book of Love , and The Drowned Book . He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers' PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words . He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks. Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise renderings that will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. ...

Product details

• Authors: Coleman Barks, Dschalaloddin Rumi, Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Galal-ad-Din Rumi, Jalal-ad-Din Rumi
• Assisted by: Coleman Barks (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2003
• EAN: 9780060523169
• ISBN: 978-0-06-052316-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Poetry, Middle East, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Aspects of religion, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY: Middle Eastern, POETRY: POETS: H TO Z, POETRY: General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Epic, POETRY: Haiku *, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Poetry by form: Haiku, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Religious, Poetry / Poets: H to Z