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by Coleman Barks
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Rumi's incomparable poems of love and lovers are translated by the poet who introduced him to a wide American audience.
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Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. 'There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.' Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds – erotic, divine, friendship –and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging 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 – these poems cover all 'the magnificent regions of the heart'.
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I take down my King James to look up the passage about love (charity) in 1 Corinthians 13.
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Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America′s bestselling poet Rumi′s finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks′ delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.
′There are lovers content with longing.
I′m not one of them.′
Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds - erotic, divine, friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging 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 - these poems cover all ′the magnificent regions of the heart′.
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- Title Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
- Author Coleman Barks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 206
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperOne, New York
- Publication date 2005-01-18
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060750503 / 0060750502
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Holiday: Valentine's Day
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Category Poetry
- Library of Congress subjects Jalal al-Din Rumi
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002032700
- Dewey Decimal Code 891.551
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- Ingram Advance, 02/01/2005, Page 85
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