Rumi : the big red book : the great masterpiece celebrating mystical love and friendship
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
891.5511/JALAL AL-DIN RUMI
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperOne, [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
492 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780061905827 (hardback), 0061905828 (hardback)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Odes and Quatrains from The Shams."
Translated from the Persian
"Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on these particular poems has never been published anywhere. This book represents over thirty-three years on Rumi's seminal classic"--