The Essential Rumi — Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

Verdict first: Coleman Barks’s Rumi is the best-selling poetry in America. It is also not Rumi. Both of these things are true. The book is worth owning anyway. You should know what you are owning. Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi — Mawlana, the Master — was a thirteenth-century Persian jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic who taught […]