false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180031147m/989089.jpg 67376 2 <P>Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.</P><P> 'There are lovers content with longing.</P><P> I'm not one of them.'</P><P> Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds &ndash; erotic, divine, friendship &ndash;and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the 'wholeness' one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover's loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship &ndash; these poems cover all 'the magnificent regions of the heart'.</P> 65340 2003 Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing total:236|5:126|4:79|3:24|2:6|1:1| 236 1031 339 16 4 2 false false Sat Apr 05 21:04:25 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 21 19:19:28 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 19:19:34 -0800 2007
Last year, I admired the wines. This,
I'm wandering inside the red world.

Last year, I gazed at the fire,
This year I'm burnt kabob.

Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection.

Now I am a lion staring...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 24 13:49:55 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:01:16 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 09:18:09 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 09:26:37 -0800 2008 absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.

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If that makes any sense.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 19:28:31 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 19:29:39 -0700 2008 is this love."

I don't often get into volumes of poetry, but I feel like Lynda Barry made me. I came to this book looking for poetic imagery, and I found it, but I left it feeling so much more overwhelmed and opened to all the happenings of the univers...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 21 15:25:38 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 15:26:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 15 13:49:13 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 13:49:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 05 06:14:21 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 06:16:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 09 13:12:20 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 07 12:07:53 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 13:12:20 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 21 20:29:32 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 12:25:15 -0700 2009 Ahem. I worked in a New Age bookstore, so yes, I've read Rumi. Love talking about love.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 24 15:05:16 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 22 07:36:43 -0700 2009 "A thousand half loves
must be forsaken to take
one whole heart home."
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