The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition by Jalal al-Din Rumi Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Book Review: good work in cold-blood
Summary: 4 Stars
true,cool,well-done,sufficiently deep, tasteful,readable,semi-amateur but honest,refreshing,house-guest,frothy,discreet,wavy,giving the sap,hourglass,timid sometime and confident in another time,makes you on the jump,gnat-wing, a welcomed callerBook Review: the "best" Rumi book?
Summary: 5 Stars
As a lover of Rumi with many friends similarly smitten with him, I hear many opinions about which Rumi book is "the best". One criticism of this Barks translation is that it is a translation of a translation, not direct from the original Persian; but a Persian friend maintains that the feeling Barks gives is the truest to the original that my Persian friend has found. For me, this is the best because of that feeling, and also because of the breadth and depth - including the sheer number - of poems translated. For me Rumi is more teacher than entertainer; and for a practical, day to day study of his work, I know no better book than this.Book Review: the essential rumi
Summary: 5 Stars
Coleman Barks crafts scintillating translations of Rumi's ecstatic, poetic prayers. Speaking directly to the modern heart across centuries, Rumi captures the most poignant and mystical ways we seek to commune with a vast and unknowable creator who is at the same time an intimate companion, a friend. Wonderful prayers, poetry and parables bring Rumi's world to life, and enliven this life, injecting joyful surprise into the eternal mysteries.Book Review: this is a transcendence, not a 'translation'
Summary: 5 Stars
don't get hung up on the hang ups of scholars and other strait-jacket types. this stuff is rumi translated, not literally, but soulfully. and that method usually fails.
not here.