Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi (Paperback)

by Jelaluddin Rumi (Author), John Moyne (Translator), Coleman Barks (Translator) "The one who floods the private sanctuary I've built, who takes away sleep, who drags and throws me under, that presence is the joy I..." (more)

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Product Description
In some languages of the Middle East the word for rain and the word for grace are the same. These quatrains are evidence of the invisible grace falling on our earth a grace received by the mature spirit of master poet, Jelaluddin Rumi.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Persian

Product Details

• Paperback: 83 pages
• Publisher: Threshold Books (September 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939660164
• ISBN-13: 978-0939660162
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,661,731 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Beautiful Poetry on the Planet, August 10, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quatrains About Poetry and Love - A Redundancy., January 14, 2005

By	Hortensia Anderson "Hortensia Anderson" (nyc, ny, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi (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...

5.0 out of 5 stars Let Rumi expand your mind., June 26, 2009

By	Judith A. Smotts (desert) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Rumi led me to world history, comparative religions, and haiku.

"The hand is veiled, yet the pen writes as bidden."