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

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

Publication Info. New York : HarperOne, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Southington Library - Adult  891.5511 JAL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  891.551 JALAL AL-DIN RUMI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  891.551 JALAL AL-DIN RUMI    Check Shelf
Edition New expanded edition.
Description xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm
Gender group gdr Men lcdgt
National/Regional group nat Iranians lcdgt
Religious group rel Sufis lcdgt
Note Originally published in 1995.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index.
Summary A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.
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 -- A new section: the pistachio passport.
Subject Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 -- Translations into English.
Sufi poetry, Persian -- Translations into English.
POETRY -- Middle Eastern.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. (OCoLC)fst00073511
Sufi poetry, Persian. (OCoLC)fst01137242
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Poetry.
Added Author Barks, Coleman, translator.
Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969, translator.
Moyne, John, translator.
Added Title Poems. Selections. English
ISBN 0062509586
9780062509581
9780062509598
0062509594
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