2007 is the Year of Rumi, and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionate ambassador, to mark the milestone of this great poet's 800th birthday? Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his thirty years of translating Rumi, has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any form. The result is this beautiful edition titled Rumi: Bridge to the Soul. The bridge in the title is a reference to the Khajou Bridge in Isphahan, Iran, which Barks visited with Robert Bly in May of 2006--a trip that in many ways prompted this book. The soul bridge also suggests Rumi himself, who crosses cultures and religions and brings us all together to listen to his words, regardless of origin or creed. Open this book and let Rumi's poetry carry you into the interior silence and joy of the spirit, the place that unites conscious knowing with a deeper, more soulful understanding.
Author(s): Coleman Barks
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 160
Cover
Title Page
CONTENTS
Introduction
Bridge, Poem, Awareness Moving Through
Travel Notes
The Poems
Chapter One: A Bowl Fallen From the Roof
Chapter Two: A Story They Know
Chapter Three: Harvest
Chapter Four: Inhale Autumn, Long for Spring
Chapter Five: Leaves About to Let Go
Chapter Six: A Light Within His Light
Chapter Seven: A King Dressed as a Servant
Chapter Eight: As the Sky Does in Water
Chapter Nine: The Time of Divulging
Chapter Ten: Empty
Chapter Eleven: Nicknames
Chapter Twelve: New Blossoms
Chapter Thirteen: Split the Sack
Chapter Fourteen: Any Sprig of an Herb
Chapter Fifteen: Secret Places
Chapter Sixteen: Doorsill
Chapter Seventeen: Flightpaths
Chapter Eighteen: Music and Silence
Chapter Nineteen: Earsight
Chapter Twenty: The Talking
Chapter Twenty-One: Currency
Chapter Twenty-Two: Water from the Well of the Soul
Chapter Twenty-Three: Another Invitation
Chapter Twenty-Four: The One Who Left
Chapter Twenty-Five: Disciplines
Chapter Twenty-Six: Pieces of a Broken Cup
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Spilled Speech
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Soul Houses
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Wave of That Agreement
Chapter Thirty: Calm in the Midst of Lightning
Chapter Thirty-One: Avalanche
Chapter Thirty-Two: Pure Silence
Chapter Thirty-Three: What Fear of Loss
Chapter Thirty-Four: A Mountain Nest
Chapter Thirty-Five: Miles of Riverside Canebed
Chapter Thirty-Six: Solomon and the Wind of Speaking
Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Mixed-Breed Apple
Chapter Thirty-Eight: No Expectations
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Mountaintop Trough
Chapter Forty: What You Gave
Chapter Forty-One: Your Turn at Dice
Chapter Forty-Two: Holiday Without Limits
Chapter Forty-Three: Outdoors and the Passion of the Grass
Chapter Forty-Four: A Preposterous Guess
Chapter Forty-Five: Asleep and Listening
Chapter Forty-Six: Pearl
Chapter Forty-Seven: Green Writ
Chapter Forty-Eight: Look At a Fountain
Chapter Forty-Nine: Desolation
Chapter Fifty: The Dance of Your Hidden Life
Chapter Fifty-One: Let the Soup Simmer
Chapter Fifty-Two: The Olny Obligation
Chapter Fifty-Three: Butcher and Sheep
Chapter Fifty-Four: I See the Pace
Chapter Fifty-Five: The Meeting
Chapter Fifty-Six: The Living Doubleness
Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Value of This Moment
Chapter Fifty-Eight: Ocean Light
Chapter Fifty-Nine: Like a Pig
Chapter Sixty: Gone for Good
Chapter Sixty-One: Two Lovings
Chapter Sixty-Two: Talking to the Luck-Bird
Chapter Sixty-Three: Alive With Scripture
Chapter Sixty-Four: Faint Lament of From
Chapter Sixty-Five: This Hight Meadow
Chapter Sixty-Six: Granted
Chapter Sixty-Seven: Saladin's Leaving
Chapter Sixty-Eight: What you Have Despised In Yourself
Chapter Sixty-Nine: Winter or Summer
Chapter Seventy: Abraham and Isaac
Chapter Seventy-One: I Ask One More Thing
Chapter Seventy-Two: Seeds and Rain
Chapter Seventy-Three: One Being Inside All
Chapter Seventy-Four: Struck Tent
Chapter Seventy-Five: Open Window
Chapter Seventy-Six: Pull Sun
Chapter Seventy-Seven: I Rocked My Own Chest
Chapter Seventy-Eight: You Shall Not See Me
Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Beautiful Walk Inside You
Chapter Eighty: Leaving
Chapter Eighty-One: Energy You Can Spend
Chapter Eighty-Two: One Thing I Did Wrong
Chapter Eighty-Three: A Northern Wind
Chapter Eighty-Four: Midnight and Sunrise
Chapter Eighty-Five: The Creation Word
Chapter Eighty-Six: We Are The Sun
Chapter Eighty-Seven: You Make Your Own Oil as You Cook
Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Hundred and One
Chapter Eighty-Nine: We Cannot Decide
Chapter Ninety: A Waking Town
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