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LEADER: 01428nam a22002778a 4500
001 2010007895
003 DLC
005 20100301091333.0
008 100223s2010 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010007895
020 $a9780061905827 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
041 1 $aeng$hper
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPK6481.D6$bE5 2010
082 00 $a891/.5511$222
100 1 $aJalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,$cMaulana,$d1207-1273.
240 10 $aDīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī.$lEnglish.$kSelections
245 10 $aRumi :$bthe big red book : the great masterpiece celebrating mystical love and friendship /$cthe collected translations of Coleman Barks.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperOne,$c2010.
263 $a1112
300 $ap. cm.
500 $a"Odes & Quatrains from Rumi's Masterpiece, The Shams."
520 $a"Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on these particular poems has never been published anywhere. This book represents over thirty-three years on Rumi's seminal classic"--$cProvided by publisher.
700 1 $aBarks, Coleman.