Translated by Coleman Barks for the first time and introduced with a fascinating and personal essay, these poems serve as a record of the transcendent friendship between Rumi and the Shams of Tabriz.

Deepak Chopra presents his personal selection of favorite poems by one of history's greatest poets of spirituality and romance. Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved,...

Provides English translations of a selection of poems by Rumi, a medieval Persian mystic and poet.

"Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on these particular poems has never been published anywhere....

"Collection of new translations of Rumi's poems"--