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Book Reviews of The Essential Rumi

The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi
Author: Coleman Barks
ISBN-13: 9780062509598
ISBN-10: 0062509594
Publication Date: 2/14/1997
Pages: 240
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed The 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 The 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 The 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 The Essential Rumi on + 176 more book reviews
1998 edition of this "Mystical Classics of the World"