The Essential Rumi - reissue
New Expanded Edition
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2010
416 pages
978-0-06-204665-9 (ISBN)
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems of Rumi.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite Sufi poetry to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever. The Essential Rumi continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.
Inside the bestselling Rumi collection of all time, you'll discover:
- The Essential Translator: Coleman Barks's masterful, lyrical translations that have made Rumi the most popular poet in America.
- Over 80 New Poems: Discover dozens of never-before-published poems of longing, ecstasy, and union, newly translated for this expanded edition.
- Timeless Sufi Mysticism: Journey into the heart of the 13th-century spiritual tradition with poetry that speaks directly to the soul's deepest questions.
- A Gateway to the Beloved: Explore themes of ecstatic love, divine emptiness, and profound surrender that have resonated with seekers and poetry lovers for centuries.
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Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers' PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words. He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction to the New Edition
- On Rumi
- A Note on the Organization of This Book
- 1 - The Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home
- On the Tavern
- Who Says Words with My Mouth?
- We Have a Huge Barrel of Wine .
- A Community of the Spirit
- There's a Strange Frenzy in my Head .
- Drunks Fear the Police .
- A Children's Game
- Gone, inner and outer .
- The wine we really drink .
- The Many Wines
- Special Plates
- Burnt Kabob
- The New Rule
- This that is tormented .
- 2 - Bewilderment: I Have Five Things to Say
- On Bewilderment
- I Have Five Things to Say
- Acts of Helplessness
- Saladin's Begging Bowl
- Late, by myself.
- Does sunset sometimes look .
- Be Melting Snow
- The Fragile Vial
- Where Are We?
- The Friend comes into my body .
- There is a light seed grain .
- Do you think I know.
- 3 - Emptiness and Silence: The Night Air
- On Silence
- The Reed Flute's Song
- A Thirsty Fish
- Enough Words?
- This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness
- Quietness
- Sanai
- A Just-Finishing Candle
- Craftsmanship and Emptiness
- Emptiness
- When you are with everyone but me .
- No Flag
- The Food Sack
- The Night Air
- Only Breath
- There is a way between voice.
- 4 - Spring Giddiness: Stand in the Wake of This Chattering and Grow Airy
- On Spring Giddiness
- Spring
- Where Everything Is Music
- A Great Wagon
- Today, like every other day .
- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing.
- The breeze at dawn .
- I would love to kiss you .
- Daylight, full of small dancing particles .
- They try to say what you are .
- Come to the orchard in Spring .
- Spring Is Christ
- Shreds of Steam
- The Steambath
- The Ground Cries Out
- Unfold Your Own Myth
- Not a Day on Any Calendar
- Flutes for Dancing
- The Shape of My Tongue
- The Grasses
- The Sheikh Who Played with Children
- Let the lover be disgraceful.
- All day and night, music . 46
- 5 - Feeling Separation: Don't Come Near Me
- On Separation
- Sometimes I Forget Completely
- A Man and a Woman Arguing
- A night full of talking that hurts .
- An Empty Garlic
- The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty .
- Red Shirt
- My Worst Habit
- Don't let your throat tighten .
- Dissolver of sugar .
- Pale sunlight.
- 6 - Controlling the Desire-Body: How Did You Kill Your Rooster, Husam?
- On the Desire-Body
- Sexual Urgency, What a Woman's Laughter Can Do, and the Nature of True Virility
- Tattooing in Qazwin
- The Center of the Fire
- Someone who goes with half a loaf.
- The mystery does not get clearer .
- Muhammad and the Huge Eater
- Fasting
- Bismillah
- Wean Yourself
- After the Meditation
- The Dog in the Doorway
- The light you give off.
- Tending Two Shops
- Think that you're gliding out.
- 7 - Sohbet: Meetings on the Riverbank
- On Sohbet
- Talking in the Night
- Talking Through the Door
- A Mouse and a Frog
- The Long String
- The Force of Friendship
- The Vigil
- Two Friends
- The Servant Who Loved His Prayers
- Imra'u 'l-Qays
- All Rivers at Once
- The Blocked Road
- A Babbling Child
- Who sees inside from outside?.
- Constant Conversation
- Bonfire at Midnight
- In Between Stories
- The Question
- The Music
- I saw you last night in the gathering .
- The Tent
- Friend, our closeness is this .
- Listen to presences .
- 8 - Being a Lover: The Sunrise Ruby
- On Being a Lover
- The Sunrise Ruby
- Water from Your Spring
- You Sweep the Floor
- Each Note
- Granite and Wineglass
- Buoyancy
- Music Master
- When I am with you .
- The minute I heard my first love story .
- We are the mirror as well as the face .
- I want to hold you close .
- Someone Digging in the Ground
- The Phrasing Must Change
- The Guest House
- 9 - The Pickaxe: Getting to the Treasure Beneath the Foundation
- On the Pickaxe
- Who Makes These Changes?
- Why Wine Is Forbidden
- On Resurrection Day
- The Dream That Must Be Interpreted
- The Pickaxe
- Zikr
- The Core of Masculinity
- I honor those who try .
- Dervish at the Door
- 10 - Art as Flirtation with Surrender: Wanting New Silk Harp Strings
- On Flirtation
- Omar and the Old Poet
- An Egypt That Doesn't Exist
- Chinese Art and Greek Art
- In your light I learn
- Drumsound rises on the air.
- Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?.
- 11 - Union: Gnats Inside the Wind
- On Union
- Gnats Inside the Wind
- Meadowsounds
- Ayaz and the King's Pearl
- Put This Design in Your Carpet
- Hallaj
- We Three
- I am filled with you .
- 12 - The Sheikh: I Have Such a Teacher
- On the Sheikh
- Chickpea to Cook
- I Have Such a Teacher
- Sublime Generosity
- Like This
- A Bowl
- Wax
- No Room for Form
- Childhood Friends
- The Mouse and the Camel
- These gifts from the Friend .
- The Lame Goat
- 13 - Recognizing Elegance: Your Reasonable Father
- On Elegance
- Father Reason
- A craftsman pulled a reed .
- Humble living does not diminish .
- New Moon, Hilal
- Body Intelligence
- The Seed Market
- 14 - The Howling Necessity: Cry Out in Your Weakness
- On Howling
- Love Dogs
- Cry Out in Your Weakness
- The Debtor Sheikh
- You that come to birth .
- 15 - Teaching Stories: How the Unseen World Works
- On the Unseen
- Nasuh
- Moses and the Shepherd
- Joy at Sudden Disappointment
- If the beloved is everywhere .
- Story Water
- 16 - Rough Metaphors: More Teaching Stories
- On Roughness
- Rough Metaphors
- Birdwings
- I Come Before Dawn
- Checkmate
- An Awkward Comparison
- Two Kinds of Intelligence
- Two Ways of Running
- The Importance of Gourdcrafting
- Breadmaking
- 17 - Solomon Poems: The Far Mosque
- On Solomon
- Sheba's Gifts to Solomon
- Solomon to Sheba
- Sheba's Hesitation
- Sheba's Throne
- Solomon's Crooked Crown
- The Far Mosque
- A bird delegation came to Solomon .
- 18 - The Three Fish: Gamble Everything for Love
- On Gambling
- If you want what visible reality .
- Gamble everything.
- In a boat down a fast-running creek .
- The Three Fish
- Send the Chaperones Away
- When I remember your love .
- All our lives we've looked .
- The Gift of Water
- 19 - Jesus Poems: The Population of the World
- On Jesus
- I called through your door .
- Jesus on the Lean Donkey
- What Jesus Runs Away From
- Christ is the population .
- There's Nothing Ahead
- 20 - In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories
- On Baghdad
- In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad
- Dying, Laughing
- Human Honesty
- Dalqak's Message
- The Cat and the Meat
- Sheikh Kharraqani and His Wretched Wife
- The Snake-Catcher and the Frozen Snake
- Polishing the Mirror
- Ali in Battle
- 21 - Beginning and End: The Stories That Frame the Mathnawi
- On the Frame
- The King and the Handmaiden and the Doctor
- The Three Brothers and the Chinese Princess
- 22 - Green Ears Everywhere: Children Running Through
- On Children Running Through
- I used to be shy .
- Green Ears
- Birdsong brings relief.
- The way of love is not.
- Let your throat-song
- I have phrases and whole pages .
- You've so distracted me .
- I'm Not Saying This Right
- The Least Figure
- I reach for a piece of wood .
- 23 - Being Woven: Communal Practice
- On Being Woven
- Of Being Woven
- The Waterwheel
- The Granary Floor
- A Song About a Donkey
- Elephant in the Dark
- 24 - Wished-For Song: Secret Practices
- On Secrecy
- A Wished-For Song
- A Basket of Fresh Bread
- When We Pray Alone
- One Who Wraps Himself
- Deliberation
- The Private Banquet
- We are the night ocean .
- Which is worth more, a crowd .
- 25 - Majesty: This We Have Now
- On Majesty
- This We Have Now
- The Visions of Daquqi
- The Worm's Waking
- The Freshness
- Judge a Moth by the Beauty of Its Candle
- The morning wind spreads.
- Slave, be aware .
- 26 - Evolutionary Intelligence: Say I Am You
- On Evolving
- A Dove in the Eaves
- We have this way of talking .
- This piece of food .
- In the slaughterhouse of love .
- The Witness, the Darling
- In the Arc of Your Mallet
- Unmarked Boxes
- The Milk of Millennia
- The You Pronoun
- Birdsong from Inside the Egg
- Say I Am You
- 27 - The Turn: Dance in Your Blood
- On The Turn
- Inside water, a waterwheel.
- You have said what you are .
- A secret turning in us
- This moment this love comes to rest.
- Keep walking, though there's no place .
- Walk to the well.
- I circle your nest.
- No better love than love .
- Some nights stay up .
- I am so small.
- When you feel your lips .
- The sun is love .
- Something opens our wings .
- Held like this .
- I stand up, and this one of me .
- I have lived on the lip .
- Real value comes with madness .
- Dance, when you're broken open .
- 28 - A New Section: The Pistachio Passport
- From the Shams
- A Given
- A Mystic and a Drunk
- Clouds
- So Recklessly Exposed
- These Exhaling Sounds
- In Prison
- A Ripe Fig
- Daybreak
- Start Your Lives Over
- With You Here Between
- The Deepest Rest
- As Ripeness Comes
- Dark Sweetness
- Stingy Aloeswood
- Locked Out of Life
- A Wink
- Sweet Outlaws
- Wind That Tastes of Bread and Salt
- A Bit of Embroidery
- Flood Residue
- An Understanding of the Question
- The Wine Vat's Lid
- To Say How I Am
- Your Old Aunt and Uncle
- The Buddhist Sufi
- A Cave Where Shams of Tabriz Is Resting
- A Grape
- Basra Dates
- Lies from Each Other
- A Cleared Site
- Infinitesimal Dust
- Your First Eyes
- A Frog Deep in the Presence
- Up to the Neck
- More of What We Say
- No Need to Ask
- What Would I Be?
- March
- Shuttles
- Limb-Shadows
- Drum
- The Other Thing
- The Oldest Thirst There Is
- Why Am I So Blessed?
- Farther and Farther from Zero
- The Elegance of the Ermine
- A Two-Headed Thing
- A Lantern
- The Drunken Gnat
- Spoken Things
- How Finite Minds Most Want to Be
- How Should Someone Drawn to You Act?
- The Reed Flute's Work
- Three Quatrains
- FROM THE MASNAVI
- A King Inside Who Listens
- Morning Water and a Poet
- The Eleventh Prison
- We Leave Off the Endings
- An Edge of Foam
- How We Move in Grace
- A Dumb Experiment
- A Pilgrimage to a Person
- A Sigh of Grieving
- Through the Low Gate
- The King's Lead-Camel
- A Dying Dog
- Prose Preface to Book V
- One Strong Brushstroke Down
- Refuse the First Plate
- Backpain
- The Uses of Fear
- Town and Country
- Sweet-Talked into Connection
- Inklings
- Ayaz and the Thirty Courtiers
- The Well of Sacred Text
- Ocean Love
- Hand Above Hand Above Hand
- The Freedom of a Place
- Love and I Talking
- Notes
- A Note on These Translations and a Few Recipes
- References
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- Books by Coleman Barks
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
