A Year with Rumi Daily Readings
A Year with Rumi Daily Readings by Coleman Barks, published by HarperCollins on October 31, 2006, offers a collection of 365 translations of Rumi’s poetry, including fifteen previously unpublished works. This edition presents Barks’s interpretations, which aim to illuminate the themes of spirituality and mysticism found in Rumi’s writings, making them accessible to a contemporary audience.
Readers will find an introduction that contextualizes Rumi’s life and work, along with an afterword reflecting on the nature of poetry as it relates to the sacred and the mysterious. This book invites exploration of the divine in everyday experiences, encouraging a deeper understanding of Sufi spirituality. With 432 pages, this edition serves as a daily companion for those interested in meditative practices and the spiritual insights of Rumi.
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Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks’s elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi’s greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems.
Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.
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