The Love Poems of Rumi

Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.

This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems. Exalted yearning, ravishing ecstasy, and consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on their creation more than 700 years ago.

• Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
• The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
• The Love Poems of Rumi
• Rumi: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
• Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
• The Universe in You: An Inner Journey Guided by Rumi
• A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
• Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
• Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (Compass)
• I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy