This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories and Letters of Rumi

by Jelaluddin Rumi

Coleman Barks (Translator) and John Moyne (Translator)

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This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme—over fifty-one thousand verses—inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style.
  • ISBN10 0939660296
  • ISBN13 9780939660292
  • Publish Date 1 January 1988
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New Leaf Distribution Company
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Language English