In 1244, the brilliant poet Rumi and the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz met and immediately fell into a deep spiritual connection. The Glance taps a major, yet little explored theme in Rumi's poetry-the mystical experience that occurs in the meeting of the eyes of the lover and the beloved, parent and child, friend and soul mate.
Coleman Barks's new translations of these powerful and complex poems capture Rumi's range from the ethereal to the everyday. They reveal the unique place of human desire, love, and ecstasy, where there exists not just the union of two souls, but the crux of the universe.
Here is a new kind of love lyric for our time-one of longing, connection, and wholeness.
- ISBN10 0670887552
- ISBN13 9780670887552
- Publish Date 30 September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2010
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Penguin Books Australia
- Imprint Viking/Allen Lane
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 112
- Language English