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Title: Open Secret: Versions of Rumi by Jelaluddin Rumi, John Moyne, Coleman Barks ISBN: 0-939660-07-5 Publisher: Threshold Books Pub. Date: March, 1984 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful poetry
Comment: This is an amazing book of poetry, the words just dance off the page. this is a good place to start if you're interested in the poetry of Rumi.
The translations are well done and don't sacrifice the emotional content of the poetry to fit the words. Give yourself or someone else a wonderful experience and read this book. You'll be very happy that you did.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must in all collections & a beatiful introduction to Rumi.
Comment: The open secret, available to all but few listen. That is the feeling you get when you let these wonderful writings flow over and through you.
Some short, some longer, each writing is a treasure. The more you read (or listen if you've been fortunate to get the audio condensed version from this work) the deeper each verse becomes. I've owned the printed copy for years and every read brings new wonders and old friends.
The cream of Rumi is brought to this work and Coleman Barks does wonderful interpretations. The work as a whole weaves a tapestry that, in the end, leaves you feeling part weaver and part thread. The possibility of the "Beloved" as "Lover" becomes manifest. The drunk, intoxicated by the bliss of the presence of God, overflows with sacred wine and wants to dance. The sharing of a deep spiritual presence at dawn with those nearest you becomes a yearning that you want each and every day.
This book is a cornerstone in the rediscovery of Rumi and Islam for that matter. It provides a glimpse, from the lovers' point of view, into a world traditionally dominated by the warrior spirit.
After reading you yearn for the association of others who have similar thoughts. You realize that "the pot drips what's in it" and you yearn to associate with gentle people who enjoy this book as much as you.
Certainly "Open Secret" is a must read and a must own. It is every bit worth the price and a classic in the genre.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another excellent Rumi - version by Barks
Comment: Unlike many of his translations of Rumi, Open Secrets credits the Persian scholar, John Moyne, as a co-author. The notes credit A. J. Arberry and R. A. Nicholson as well. Coleman Barks forms the translations in English poetry. This collection is of quatrains and odes.
In this collection fewer of the poems use specifically Sufi imagery than in some collections; e.g. "Late, by myself, in the boat of myself" could as easily be Buddhist or Hindu; this makes the poetry more obviously universal than some collections. There are, of course, the more specifically Sufi tavern/wine images, e.g. "They say that Paradise will be prefect / with losts of clear white wine and all the beautiful women".
These translations are meant for, and work best for, the individual reading for the spiritual content of Rumi rather than the scholar interested in Persian poetry.
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Title: The Essential Rumi - reissue : New Expanded Edition by Coleman Barks ISBN: 0062509594 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi by Coleman Barks, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi ISBN: 0961891610 Publisher: Maypop Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Unseen Rain : Quatrains of Rumi by John Moyne, Coleman Barks ISBN: 1570625344 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Rumi: We Are Three: New Rumi Poems by Coleman Barks, Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi ISBN: 0961891602 Publisher: Maypop Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Say I Am You: Poetry Interspersed With Stories of Rumi and Shams by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John Moyne, Coleman Barks, Jalalu'l-Din Rumi ISBN: 1884237002 Publisher: Maypop Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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