This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi

By Rumi and Jelaluddin Rumi

Book Overview

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme--over fifty-one thousand verses--inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570625336
• ISBN13: 9781570625336
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

insightful and refreshing

An excellent translation. He who reads this book will try to remember all that is in it.

profound, poignant, penetrating, delicious

Rumi's poetry crosses time, penetrates to our very essence. Coleman Bark's translations melt in your mouth.