Rumi: Swallowing the Sun
by Lewis, Franklin D.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher(s): Oneworld Publications
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Summary
Timeless and eternal, the poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi is loved the world over and he is a best-selling poet from America to Afghanistan. Commemorating the 800th anniversary of Rumi's birth, this beautiful volume draws from the breadth of Rumi's work, spanning his entire career. Franklin Lewis's evocative translation will prove inspirational to both keen followers of Rumi and readers discovering the great poet for the first time.
Table of Contents
| Orisons to the sun : poems of praise and invocation | p. 1 |
| Poems of faith and observance | p. 9 |
| Poems on poetry and music | p. 29 |
| Poems of silence | p. 41 |
| Poems of loss and confusion | p. 55 |
| Poems from disciple to master | p. 65 |
| Poems from master to disciple | p. 75 |
| Poems from master to master | p. 87 |
| Poems of dreams and visions | p. 99 |
| Poems about the religion of love : ways of reason, modes of love | p. 113 |
| Poems celebrating union | p. 129 |
| Poems of death and beyond | p. 143 |
| Poems about birthing the soul | p. 151 |
| Notes on the poems | p. 167 |
| Index of first lines | p. 201 |
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