This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi

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.

Author: Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks, John Moyne
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 06/06/2000
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.24w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781570625336