Rumi: The Book of Love

Coleman Barks

Original title: Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks first published 2003 HarperOne, 2005 paperback 240 pages

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. 'There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.' Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds – erotic, divine, frie...

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Coleman Barks 1 printing we hold · 2005 · HarperOne

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Rumi: The Book of Love ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061579165
Rumi: The Book of Love paperback · 2005 · HarperOne · 240 pages · 9780060750503
Rumi: The Book of Love hardcover · 2003 · HarperOne · 240 pages · 9780060523169

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