The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

Name: The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition
Rating: 4.650000095367432 (20 reviews)

Coleman Barks

Sep 2010 · Sold by Harper Collins

4.7

20 reviews

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416

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About this ebook

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.

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4.7

20 reviews

Gaurav Rajeev

April 21, 2017

If this book doesn't affect you profoundly, you're lying

12 people found this review helpful

Sohail Ahmed

May 6, 2020

best book in world for love and humanity

11 people found this review helpful

About the author

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.

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