Rowdy, ecstatic and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do however compulsive affords a glimpse into the inner life. Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy and bursting with vitality much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald and finally possessors of opened souls. Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening and weirdly funny. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."—Rumi.
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Coleman Barks
Harper Collins Publishers Limited
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Selected Poems Penguin Black Classics
Coleman Barks, Jalaluddin Rumi,John Moyne
Penguin Random House Group
The Spiritual Poems Of Rumi Premium Hardback Edition
Jalaluddin Rumi,Kabir Helminski
Teachings Of Rumi
Andrew Harvey
Shambhala Publications Inc.
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Will Johnson
Inner Traditions/Simon & Schuster Inc.
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Chhaganlal Lala
B. R. Publishing Corporation
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Mostafa Vaziri
Pilgrims Publishing Varanasi
The Book Of Rumi 105 Stories And Fables That Illumine Delight And Inform
Maryam Mafi, Jalaluddin Rumi
Amaryllis/Manjul Publishing
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