Rumi: Selected Poems by Rumi (Jalāl Ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī)

This selection presents English versions of poems by the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi Jalal ad-Din Rumi, drawn mainly from the ghazals of the Divan and from the narrative couplets of the Masnavi. The pieces address the beloved, the absent friend, wine, the reed flute, and the soul's separation from its source. Speakers shift between teacher, lover, and fool; short lyrics sit beside teaching stories. There is no continuous plot. The volume is a sampler of mystical lyric and parable, not a biography and not a systematic treatise on Sufi doctrine.

Bound in dark blue cloth, blocked on covers with a pink pattern by the artist.