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Rumi: The Book of Love
Coleman Barks
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Rumi: The Book of Love
Coleman Barks
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Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks.
Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise renderings that will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.
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Middle Eastern Poetry1. Spontaneous Wandering
I take down my King James to look up the passage about love (charity) in 1 Corinthians 13. There is a tiny red ant living in Corinth. It walks to the top and along the gold edges. Spontaneous wandering is a favorite region of the heart. It may look like mindless drift, but it isn’t. More the good Don and Sancho out for their inspired adventures, quixotic and panzaic.5 The ant is my teacher.
We see through a glass darkly, then face-to-face. A more polished mirror shows us who we truly are. The wandering of Rumi’s poetry is a model for the soul’s lovely motions. When thirst begins to look for water, water has already started out with a canteen, looking for thirst. Love feels like sliding along the eddies and currents of the tao.
Pir Vilayat Khan6 recently commented to me, “Your first Rumi volumes seemed very sexual.” He’s right. There is too much of that energy in the first work with Rumi I did, especially in some of the quatrains. I was very wet with such water at the time myself. I was thirty-nine. Now I’m sixty-five. Things change; nothing wrong with that. What’s truly alive is always changing.
Gay lovers hear Rumi’s poetry as gay. I don’t agree, though I’m certainly guilty of previously loading Rumi’s poetry with erotic fruit. I don’t do that now. Rumi is way happier than sex and orgasms, his wandering more conscious and free. See “Imra’u ‘l-Qays” in the next section. Rumi and Shams wander in that country.
Perhaps the purest wanderer of our time is Nanao, like Basho in his. Gary Snyder says about him,
This subtropical East China Sea carpenter and spear fisherman finds himself equally at home in the desert. So much so that on one occasion when an eminent traditional Buddhist priest boasted of his lineage, Nanao responded, “I need no lineage. I am desert rat.” But for all his independence Nanao Sakaki carries the karma of Chungtzu, En-no-gyoja, Saigyo, Ikkyu, Basho, and Issa in his bindle. His work or play in the world is to pull out nails, free seized nuts, break loose the rusted, open up the shutters. You can put these poems in your shoes and walk a thousand miles.
GO WITH MUDDY FEET
When you hear dirty story
wash your ears.
When you see ugly stuff
wash your eyes.
When you get bad thoughts
wash your mind.
and
and
Keep your feet muddy.7
—Nanao Sakaki
Excuse my wandering.
How can one be orderly with this?
It’s like counting leaves in a garden,
along with the song notes of partridges,
and crows. Sometimes organization
and computation become absurd.
FIVE THINGS
I have five things to say,
five fingers to give into your grace.
First, when I was apart from you,
this world did not exist, nor any other.
Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
Third, why did I ever learn to count to three?
Fourth, my cornfield is burning!
Fifth, this finger stands for Rabia,8
and this is for someone else.
Is there a difference?
Are these words or tears?
Is weeping speech?
What shall I do, my love?
So the lover speaks, and everyone around
begins to cry with him, laughing crazily,
moaning in the spreading union
of lover and beloved.
This is ...
Índice
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Magnificent Regions of the Heart
- A Brief Account of Rumi's Life
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- A Note on Translation
- Notes
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- About the Author
- Books by Coleman Barks
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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APA 6 Citation
Barks, C. (2009). Rumi: The Book of Love ([edition unavailable]). HarperCollins. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/589680/rumi-the-book-of-love-pdf (Original work published 2009)
Chicago Citation
Barks, Coleman. (2009) 2009. Rumi: The Book of Love. [Edition unavailable]. HarperCollins. https://www.perlego.com/book/589680/rumi-the-book-of-love-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Barks, C. (2009) Rumi: The Book of Love. [edition unavailable]. HarperCollins. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/589680/rumi-the-book-of-love-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Barks, Coleman. Rumi: The Book of Love. [edition unavailable]. HarperCollins, 2009. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.