This Longing Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, theMathnawi. TheMathnawiconsists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme-over fifty-one thousand verses-inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from theMathnawiare presented in American free-verse style.Barks, Coleman is the author of 'This Longing Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi', published 2000 under ISBN 9781570625336 and ISBN 1570625336.