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

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

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

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

by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi , Coleman Barks , John Moyne
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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.
ISBN9781570625336
Author Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi , Coleman Barks , John Moyne
PublisherShambhala
GenreReligion & spirituality and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages128
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Coleman Barks
COLEMAN BARKS is the best-selling translator of The Essential Rumi The Soul of Rumi, and Rumi: The Book of Love and author of numerous volumes of poetry including Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (Georgia). He taught creative writing and American poetry in the English Department at the University of Georgia for thirty years and currently lives in Athens, Georgia.
About John Moyne
John Moyne is a Persian scholar and Emeritus Professor and former head of Linguistics at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

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