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Author Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.

Title The essential Rumi / translated by Coleman Barks, with John Moyne, A.A. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson ; introduction by Huston Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  891.55 JAL    DUE 11-30-24
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  891.55 ESS    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 302 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Mystical classics of the world
Mystical classics of the world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302).
Contents The tavern: whoever brought me here will have to take me home -- Bewilderment: I have five things to say -- Emptiness and silence: the night air -- Spring giddiness: stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy -- Feeling separation: don't come near me -- Controlling the desire-body: how did you kill your rooster, Husam? -- Sohbet: meetings on the riverbank -- Being a lover: the sunrise ruby -- The pickaxe: getting to the treasure beneath the foundation -- Art as flirtation with surrender: wanting new silk harp strings -- Union: gnats inside the wind -- The sheikh: I have such a teacher -- Recognizing elegance: your reasonable father -- The howling necessity: cry out in your weakness -- Teaching stories: how the unseen world works -- Rough metaphors: more teaching stories -- Solomon poems: the far mosque -- The three fish: gamble everything for love -- Jesus poems: the population of the world -- In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: more teaching stories -- Beginning and end: the stories that frame the Mathnawi -- Green ears everywhere: children running through -- Being woven: communal practice -- Wished-for song: secret practices -- Majesty: this we have now -- Evolutionary intelligence: say I am you -- The turn: dance in your blood.
Subject Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 -- Translations into English.
Sufi poetry, Persian -- Translations into English.
Added Author Barks, Coleman.
Added Title Works. Selections. English. 1998
ISBN 0965064871
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