The Essential Rumi

The Essential Rumi is a single-volume selection of poetry by the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi. The collection presents Rumi's spiritual verse in English translations by Coleman Barks, working from versions by John Moyne, A. J. Arberry, and Reynold Nicholson. Its poems explore love, longing, union with the divine, emptiness, silence, and the transformative relationship between Rumi and Shams of Tabriz.

by Rumi

Castle Books · First published 1995 · 302 pages