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# The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

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Review: Rumi is incredible - Reading The Essential Rumi is like sitting beside a warm fire with a wise, joyful friend who whispers truths you didn't know you were ready to hear. Coleman Barks’ translation doesn’t just preserve Rumi’s brilliance—it breathes life into it. This expanded edition feels like discovering a hidden room in a beloved home. With more than 80 new poems, each page invites quiet reflection or sudden, unexpected joy. Rumi's words dance between the earthly and the divine, somehow grounding you while also pulling you toward something higher. What I love most is that these poems don’t require academic analysis—they speak straight to the heart. Whether you're heartbroken, curious, or just trying to slow down in a noisy world, Rumi offers something timeless and deeply human. Not just a book of poetry—it’s a companion for the spirit.
Review: Some Meditate, Some Read Devotionals, I read Barks's Rumi - Some people meditate. Some people read biblical devotionals. Some people attend services from wise leaders of whatever faith, spirituality, or life's approach they hold. I read Rumi. Raised conservative Christian, later much more liberal Christian, considered both atheism and agnosticism, rejector of touchy-feely "spirituality" that teaches me no more than a good bumper sticker or a good episode of Oprah, ravenous reader about other traditions--Rumi fills my needs without compromising anything I hold dear or forcing anything I find empty. Reading Rumi brings me peace, understanding, clarity, goals both concrete and ideal, causes me to think deeply about the nature of wisdom, the spirit, the relationship of the human to the divine and humans to one another. Add to this fondness of Rumi the fact that this edition is translated and curated by Coleman Barks, one of the pre-eminent Rumi translators and scholars and one of the only whose background is related to poetry and textural analysis along with languages and historical contextualizing (full disclosure: I know Barks professionally and have admired his work in other areas as well as this one, but I do not know him well enough to make me predisposed to this text over another, at least not that I am consciously aware of). I am neither a language expert nor a Rumi expert, but from other translations I have read, this edition of Barks reflects that scholarly excellent but adds also the ability to retain the poetry and subjective wisdom of Rumi without a slavish adherence to word-for-word translation. I often open this text as I eat breakfast, a pencil in one hand and a cup of coffee or bagel in the other.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #4,577 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Middle Eastern Poetry (Books) #1 in Sufism (Books) #2 in Religious Poetry (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,446 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rumi is incredible
*by I***Y on May 21, 2025*

Reading The Essential Rumi is like sitting beside a warm fire with a wise, joyful friend who whispers truths you didn't know you were ready to hear. Coleman Barks’ translation doesn’t just preserve Rumi’s brilliance—it breathes life into it. This expanded edition feels like discovering a hidden room in a beloved home. With more than 80 new poems, each page invites quiet reflection or sudden, unexpected joy. Rumi's words dance between the earthly and the divine, somehow grounding you while also pulling you toward something higher. What I love most is that these poems don’t require academic analysis—they speak straight to the heart. Whether you're heartbroken, curious, or just trying to slow down in a noisy world, Rumi offers something timeless and deeply human. Not just a book of poetry—it’s a companion for the spirit.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Some Meditate, Some Read Devotionals, I read Barks's Rumi
*by L***B on June 5, 2016*

Some people meditate. Some people read biblical devotionals. Some people attend services from wise leaders of whatever faith, spirituality, or life's approach they hold. I read Rumi. Raised conservative Christian, later much more liberal Christian, considered both atheism and agnosticism, rejector of touchy-feely "spirituality" that teaches me no more than a good bumper sticker or a good episode of Oprah, ravenous reader about other traditions--Rumi fills my needs without compromising anything I hold dear or forcing anything I find empty. Reading Rumi brings me peace, understanding, clarity, goals both concrete and ideal, causes me to think deeply about the nature of wisdom, the spirit, the relationship of the human to the divine and humans to one another. Add to this fondness of Rumi the fact that this edition is translated and curated by Coleman Barks, one of the pre-eminent Rumi translators and scholars and one of the only whose background is related to poetry and textural analysis along with languages and historical contextualizing (full disclosure: I know Barks professionally and have admired his work in other areas as well as this one, but I do not know him well enough to make me predisposed to this text over another, at least not that I am consciously aware of). I am neither a language expert nor a Rumi expert, but from other translations I have read, this edition of Barks reflects that scholarly excellent but adds also the ability to retain the poetry and subjective wisdom of Rumi without a slavish adherence to word-for-word translation. I often open this text as I eat breakfast, a pencil in one hand and a cup of coffee or bagel in the other.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rumi the best poet ever
*by R***K on March 22, 2025*

One of the best books I have ever read. Although I read it in the original language, Persian, this translation is good too. The quality of the book was fine. The only complaint I have is about the packaging. I bought two books that were stuck together, and when I separated them, the cover of the book got torn.

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