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Book Reviews of Essential Rumi

Essential Rumi
Essential Rumi
Author: Coleman Barks
ISBN-13: 9780062509581
ISBN-10: 0062509586
Publication Date: 6/8/1995
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 4.8/5 Stars.
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4.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Book Type: Hardcover
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reviewed Essential Rumi on + 22 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A comprehensive collection of ecastic poetry that delights with its energy and passion. Brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.
buzzby avatar reviewed Essential Rumi on + 6062 more book reviews
Poem picked at random:

Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.
reviewed Essential Rumi on + 13 more book reviews
If you love Rumi...this is a must have for your book shelf. You'll pull it out from time to time and find yourself smiling at any page you open to.
Paul-RLT avatar reviewed Essential Rumi on + 176 more book reviews
1998 edition of this "Mystical Classics of the World"