Rumi's short poems have many tones and effects: some of them are quick, joyful, and whimsical; some are finely faceted abstract statements; some probe the inward space of patience and longing. Moyne and Barks translated these poems using a free-verse style, connecting these poems with great American spiritual poets such as Walt Whitman and Gary Snyder.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Persian --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Original Language: Persian --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If I were stuck on that proverbial desert island with just one book, this would be it. I've read these graceful four line poems over and over, and every time gain fresh insight. The genius of this work is that it can be read on so many different levels--give it to a couple newly in love and they can read it to each other as a book of love poems. Give it to a serious seeker of God and they will understand the love and beloved of the poems to be the relationship between Rumi and God, and the ecstasy of real communion with God...either way, this poems are beautiful and infinite. I brought this book to Afghanistan (where Rumi was born) and found the love of this poet (who they know as Bahlki) to be a bond, and we translated many poems back and forth...there are many more. BUY this book! And buy five copies to give to friends. Even people who think they don't like or read poetry end up loving this book, especially if they are on the path to God.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
How beautiful the translations:
Night comes so people can sleep like fish
in black water. Then day.
How beautiful the poetry:
I have no name
for what circles
so perfectly.
Keep this book close to you for those thin, lonely hours so that you can understand -
We are the night ocean filled
with glints of light...
Night comes so people can sleep like fish
in black water. Then day.
How beautiful the poetry:
I have no name
for what circles
so perfectly.
Keep this book close to you for those thin, lonely hours so that you can understand -
We are the night ocean filled
with glints of light...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have had this book for several years, and just pulled it off my shelf to enjoy again. Rumi's quatrains are beautiful and some of my favorite of his work, because they get straight to the heart of the matter, almost in the way a haiku does. The editors state in the introduction that they "tried to connect these poems with a strong American line of free-verse spiritual poetry" and I think they do a brilliant job of it, making these accessible and fluid. If you already love Rumi, don't miss this translation, and if you are new to him, this is a great place to start.
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Mid-Eastern Haiku
Like the salt of an entire sea nestled in a honeycomb, these poems pack so much in a few lines that re-reading only enriches one.
Published 5 months ago by Jan Peter Sendzimir
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Let Rumi expand your mind.
Rumi led me to world history, comparative religions, and haiku.
"The hand is veiled, yet the pen writes as bidden."
"The hand is veiled, yet the pen writes as bidden."
Published on June 26, 2009 by Judith A. Smotts
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If you love word images and haven't yet discovered Rumi, you are about to experience a real treat. It amazes me how Rumi, who lived hundreds of years ago and in a culture totally... Read more
Published on January 10, 2009 by M. Gilliam
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exceptional insight into the Guru-disciple Relationship
For the mystically inclined, Moyne and Barks translation of this collection of Rumi quatrains, is an "evocative" excursion into that "realm".. Read more
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