Soul of Rumi
A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2010
448 pages
978-0-06-204654-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Soul of Rumi is renowned poet Coleman Barks' first major assemblage of newly translated Rumi poems since his bestselling The Essential Rumi.Coleman Barks presents entirely new translations of Rumi's poems, published for the first time in The Soul of Rumi. The poems range over the breadth of Rumi's themes: silence, emptiness, play, God, peace, grief, sexuality, music, to name just a few. But the focus is on the ecstatic experience of human and divine love and their inseparability, conveyed with Rumi's signature passion, daring, and insights into the human heart and the heart's longings.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Rumi's Life and Times
- Some Claims About Poetry and Consciousness
- A Note About this Book
- 1. A Green Shawl: Solomon's Far Mosque
- Entrance Door
- What was Told, that
- Mary's Hiding
- The Husk and Core of Masculinity
- 2. Initiation: The Necessary Pain, of Changing
- Work in the Invisible
- A Necessary Autumn Inside Each
- Pain
- A Surprise of Roses
- More Range
- Choose a Suffering
- Climb to the Execution Place
- Watch a One-Year-Old
- 3. Baqa: Inside this Ordinary Daylight
- Walkingstick Dragon
- The Opener
- Soul Light and Sun the Same
- The Pattern Improves
- Begin
- Back to Being
- Three Travelers Tell Their Dreams
- 4. This Speech: The Source of Dream Vision
- Looking Into the Creek
- Forth
- Hometown Streets
- A Trace
- Creator of Absence and Presence
- A Ship Gliding Over Nothing
- Omar and the Old Poet
- 5. One Altar: the Inner Meaning of Religions
- One Song
- The Indian Tree
- Your Face
- Let the Way Itself Arrive
- A Cross-Eyed Student
- Dear Soul
- Four Words For What We Want
- Four Interrupted Prayers
- Spiritual Windowshoppers
- 6. A Small Dog Trying to Get You to Play: The Lighthearted Path
- Pictures of the Soul
- Soul and the Old Woman
- The Core
- Duck Wisdom
- Pebble Zikr
- Feet Becoming Head
- 7. Thirst: Waters Voice
- What we Hear in a Friend,'s Voice
- Talking and God's Love of Variety
- Amazed Mouth
- 8. The King's Falcon on a Kitchen Shelf: How It Feels to Live Apartfrom Majesty
- The City of Saba
- The Thief
- The King's Falcon
- The Ground's Generosity
- Sick of Scripture
- Medicine
- 9. Witness: Stay at the Flame's Core
- The Creek and the Stars
- Night Thieves
- Inshallah
- Thinking and the Heart's Mystical Way
- Paradox
- Empty Boat
- Whereabouts Unknown
- The Level of Words
- To the Extent they Can Die
- 10. Soul Joy: You Feel a River Moving in You
- Moving Water
- Uncle of the Jar
- When Words are Tinged with Lying
- The Source of Joy
- A Story they Know
- Roses Underfoot
- 11. Turning the Refuse of Damascus: Work with the One who Keeps Time
- Mashallah
- Cleansing Conflict
- Shadow and Light Source Both
- Wealth Without Working
- Love For Certain Work
- The Hoopoe's Talent
- 12. Grief Song, Praise Song: Peacefulness with Death
- On the Day I Die
- Time to Sacrifice Taurus
- The Sheikh who Lost Two Sons
- What's Inside the Ground
- A Brightening Floor
- The Death of Saladin
- 13. At the Outermost Extension of Empire: Diving Into Qualities
- Qualities
- Wooden Cages
- Prayer is An Egg
- 14. Mutakallim: Speaking with a Group
- Evidence
- Two Donkeys
- The Indian Parrot
- 15. Living As Evidence: The Way From Wanting to Longing
- I Pass by the Door
- Border Stations
- Wind that Mixes in Your Fire
- The Different Moon Shapes
- Husam
- 16. Garnet Red: in the Madhouse Gnawing on Chains
- Evening Sky Garnet Red
- The Sweet Blade of Your Anger
- Fourteen Questions
- Asylum
- The Silent Articulation of a Face
- A Small Green Island
- Both Wings Broken
- 17. Extravagance: Exuberance that Informs and Streams Beyond
- There You Are
- Come Horseback
- Wilder Than we Ever
- 18. Night: Darkness, Living Water
- What Hurts the Soul?
- Some Kiss we Want
- 19. Dawn: Spring Morning Listening
- The Generations I Praise
- Hunt Music
- Knowledge Beyond Love
- Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning
- Drawn by Soup
- She is the Creator
- 20. The Banquet: This is Enough was Always True
- This is Enough
- The Music we Are
- Joseph
- Yhu
- The Moment
- 21. Poetry: The Song of Being Empty
- Cup
- Glory to Mutabilis
- All we Sell
- Poetry and Cooking Tripe
- Is this a Place Where Stories are Acted Out?
- A Song of Being Empty
- A Salve Made with Dirt
- What I Say Makes Me Drunk
- 22. Pilgrim Notes: Chance Meetings, Dignity, and Purpose
- Not Here
- Cry Out Your Grief
- Broom Work
- A Clean Sandy Spot
- Two Sacks
- Any Chance Meeting
- The One Thing You Must Do
- 23. Apple Orchards in Mist: Being in Between Language and the Soul's Truth
- You are Not Your Eyes
- Prayer to Be Changed
- A Small Market Between Towns
- Lovers in Law School
- Cup and Ocean
- 24. The Joke of Materialism: Turning Bread Into Dung
- Mounted Man
- This Disaster
- Sneezing Out An I Mals
- Not Intrigued with Evening
- How Attraction Happens
- Book Beauty
- Under the Hill
- 25. Fana:. Dissolving Beyond Doubt and Certainty
- In the Waves and Underneath
- Infidel Fish
- A Star with No Name
- Rush Naked
- Die Before You Die
- Refuge
- Love with No Object
- The Road Home
- Come Out and Give Something
- Two Human-Sized Wedding Candles
- Blessing the Marriage
- One Swaying Being
- 26. Human Grief: We are Sent to Eat the World
- This Battered Saucepan
- A Delicate Girl
- The Threat of Death
- Twenty Small Graves
- Sour, Doughy, Numb, and Raw
- 27. Inner Sun: No More the Presence
- The Breast My Heart Nurses
- No More the Presence
- Out in the Open Air
- The Eye of the Heart
- A Deep Nobility
- 28. Sacrifice-. Remember Leaving Egypt
- Remember Egypt
- Astrological Bickerings
- Extract the Thorn
- 29. When Friends Meet: The Most Alive Moment
- The Most Alive Moment
- The Soul's Friend
- Inside Shams's Universe
- Like Light Over this Plain
- Wake and Walk Out
- Form is Ecstatic
- 30. The Reedbed of Silence: Opening to Absence
- Back Into the Reedbed!
- A Vague Trace
- The Taste
- 31. The Uses of Community: The Plural You
- Love Dervishes
- The Communal Heart
- Bowls of Food
- Blade
- 32. Eye of Water: Clairvoyance, Being Several: Places at Once, and the Rainpaths Of: Inspiration
- Cooked Heads
- Float, Trust, Enjoy
- Light Breeze
- Sitting Together
- Seeing with the Eye of Water we Float On
- Solomon's Sight
- 33. Music: Patience and Improvisation
- We No Longer See the One who Teaches Us
- Music Loosens Deafness
- Jami's the Camel Driver's Song
- 34. Gratitude For Teachers: The Lesson of Dogs
- The Three Stooges
- Listen to the Dogs
- The Bow to Adam
- To Trust the Ocean
- Strange Gathering
- Auction
- Scatterbrain Sweetness
- Every Section of Road
- A Cap to Wear in Both Worlds
- 35. Forgiveness: As a Christian Disappears Into Grace
- The Spring
- The Way that Moves As You Move
- We Prescribe a Friend
- What You'Ve Been Given
- Grace Got Confused
- 36. Soul Art: the Hungry Animal and the Connoisseur
- One Human Gesture
- The Mangy Calf
- Beggars
- If You Want to Live Your Soul
- 37. More Pilgrim Notes: Habits that Blind the Psyche
- Habits that Blind the Psyche
- Dolls that Pull the Stuffing Out of Each Other
- Being Slow to Blame
- Cuisine and Sex
- No Discussion
- One who Can Quit Seeing Himself
- 38. The Mystery of Renunciation: A Way of Leaving the World that Nourishes the World
- A Way of Leaving the World
- One-Handed Basket Vveaving
- Not a Food Sack, a Reed Flute
- The Flower's Eye
- Sheikh Sarrazi Comes in From the Wilderness
- I Throw It All Away
- 39. Warrior Light: How One Embodies the Collective
- Warrior Light
- Inside Solitude
- The Bear's True Dance
- 40. Choosing and Total Submission: Both are True
- Choosing and Total Submission
- These Decisions
- Fringe
- The Masnavi Book Iv
- Introduction
- Rumi's Wild Soul Book
- Mud and Glory
- The Form of the Whole
- Being God's Spies
- Book Iv
- A Note on These Translations and the Currency of Rumi in the United States
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Contents of Book Iv
- About the Author
- Books by Coleman Barks
- Praise For the Soul of Rumi
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
