Dan's review
Essential Rumi
by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Dan's review
Essential Rumi by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Dan's review
rating:
bookshelves:
philosophy,
religion
recommended for: everyone
"The design of this book is meant to confuse scholars who would divide Rumi's poetry into the accepted categories...The mind wants categories, but Rumi's creativity was a continuous fountain." Barks says this at the very beginning of the book. I believe Rumi would want scholars to be confused. With this statement Barks had me in his hands before I read the first poem, and then it just got better and better. I'm not knowledgeable about meter and all that. I just like the way these read.
I haven't pursued any other versions of Rumi. Why search for home when you are already there? I delight in this book. May it please you as much as it does me.
I haven't pursued any other versions of Rumi. Why search for home when you are already there? I delight in this book. May it please you as much as it does me.
