Rumi
Subtitle: the big red book : the great masterpiece celebrating mystical love and friendship
By: the collected translations of Coleman Barks, based on the work of John Moyne ... [et al.].
Contributors: Barks, Coleman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780061905827
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
Description: "Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on these particular poems has never been published anywhere. This book represents over thirty-three years on Rumi's seminal classic"--
Notes: "Odes and Quatrains from The Shams."

Translated from the Persian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.