 Rumi Book of Love: Poems of
Ecstasy and Longing
by Coleman Barks
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 romance to deep friendship to the immersion in divine love. Rumi,
the ultimate poet of love, explores all "the magnificient 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 dpeths more than any other.
HarperCollins, 0-06-052316-6, $21.95 |
