About the Book: Rumi: the Book of Love
Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love
of all kinds—erotic, divine, friendship—and Coleman Barks collects here the best
of those poems, ranging from the "wholeness" one experiences with a true lover,
to the grief of a lovers loss, and all the states in between: from the madness
of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship