This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme — over fifty-one thousand verses — inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style.

• Author
• Rumi, Coleman Barks, John Moyne

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 128

• Publisher
• Shambhala

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781570625336

• Genres
• poetry, spirituality, classics, religion, history

• Release date
• 2000