Rumi : the big red book : the great masterpiece celebrating mystical love and friendship : odes and quatrains from The Shams : the collected translations of Coleman Barks

Rumi The big red book : the great masterpiece celebrating mystical love and friendship : odes and quatrains from The Shams : the collected translations of Coleman Barks

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 1207-1273

Book - 2010

"Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on these particular poems has never been published anywhere. This book represents over thirty-three years on Rumi's seminal classic"--Provided by publisher.

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, > Maulana, > 1207-1273 > Translations into English.
Published
New York, NY : HarperOne c2010.
Language
English
Persian
Main Author
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 1207-1273 (-)
Other Authors
Coleman Barks (-), John Moyne
Edition
1st ed
Item Description
Translated from the Persian.
Physical Description
492 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780061905827
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Without question, we can credit Coleman Barks with making Rumi accessible to American readers through his modernized renditions of the best-known poems of the great Islamic mystic (The Essential Rumi, 1995; Rumi: The Book of Love, 2003). This is the capstone of Barks' life's work, a vast collection centering on Shams Tabrizi, a wandering mystic who transformed Rumi's life. Rumi was already renowned when Shams arrived in Konya, in today's Turkey, having wandered for years searching for someone with a soul as profound as his own with whom to share sobbet, a mystical conversation about God and love. Rumi and Shams inspired each other for several years, until Shams mysteriously disappeared. He lives on in Rumi's searching poems. Most of the hundreds of poems collected here are short: Take someone who does not keep score, / who is not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, / who has not the slightest interest even / in his own personality. He is free. Even the longer ones have the same intimate tone. Richly sensual yet never flowery, Barks' language emphasizes Rumi's embodied spirituality in a book to savor.--Monaghan, Patricia Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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