Format:
xxv, 388 Seiten
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21 cm
Edition:
New expanded edition
ISBN:
0062509586
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9780062509581
,
9780062509598
,
0062509594
Content:
A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers
Content:
The tavern: whoever brought me here will have to take me home -- Bewilderment: I have five things to say -- Emptiness and silence: the night air -- Spring giddiness: Stand in the wake of this chattering and grow airy -- Feeling separation: don't come near me -- Controlling the desire-body: how did you kill your rooster, Husam? -- Sohbet: meetings on the riverbank -- Being a lover: the sunrise ruby -- The pickaxe: getting to the treasure beneath the foundation -- Art as flirtation with surrender: wanting new silk harp strings -- Union: Gnats inside the wind -- The Sheikh: I have such a teacher -- Recognizing elegance: your reasonable father -- The howling necessity: cry out in your weakness -- Teaching stories: how the unseen world works -- rough metaphors: more teaching stories -- Solomon poems: The far mosque -- The three fish: gamble everything for love -- Jesus poems: the population of the world -- In Baghdad, dreaming of Cairo: more teaching stories -- Beginning and end: the stories that frame the Mathnawi -- Green ears everywhere: children running through -- Being woven: communal practice -- Wished-for-song: secret practices -- Majesty: this we have now -- Evolutionary intelligence: say I am you -- The turn: dance in your blood -- A new section: the pistachio passport
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Originally published in 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ǧalāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī 1207-1273
;
Lyrik
;
Übersetzung
;
Englisch
Author information:
Ǧalāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī 1207-1273
