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The Essential Rumi
Jalal Al Din Rumi · 2004 · 302 pages
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems of Rumi.
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.
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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Kevin Kelly
“There is nothing that I enjoy more than at night reading Rumi.”↗
Adam Robinson
“The author’s gotten me in touch with the mystical, and the mysterious, and the magical in life.”↗
Tara Brach
“Really, really beautiful.”↗
Tilda Swinton
“Swinton performed a reading of ‘Like This’ to celebrate the launch of her perfume collaboration with Etat Libre d’Orange. Listen here.”↗
