12 books in Poetry - Middle Eastern
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The Rumi Daybook
Edited by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $18.95
"My heart wandered through the world
constantly seeking after my cure,
but the sweet and delicious water of life
had to break through the granite of my heart."
When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words seven hundred... Read more >
Edited by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $18.95
"My heart wandered through the world
constantly seeking after my cure,
but the sweet and delicious water of life
had to break through the granite of my heart."
When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn. That he wrote the words seven hundred... Read more >
The Earth Gods
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"The Earth Gods, the last book to be published while Gibran was still in this world, came into the poet's hands two weeks before he was to lay aside all earthly volumes. . . . He had a peculiar feeling of tenderness for this book, unlike what he felt for any... Read more >
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: eBook, 44 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"The Earth Gods, the last book to be published while Gibran was still in this world, came into the poet's hands two weeks before he was to lay aside all earthly volumes. . . . He had a peculiar feeling of tenderness for this book, unlike what he felt for any... Read more >
The Forerunner
His Parables and Poems
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your own giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation."
"And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour... Read more >
His Parables and Poems
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your own giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation."
"And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour... Read more >
The Madman
His Parables and Poems
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: eBook, 75 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"This volume is in part translation from the Arabic parables, in part written directly in English. A small book of only seventy pages, it is a product of the poet's youth and early manhood, rich with promise of what was to follow. It is entirely of the East, with no shading... Read more >
His Parables and Poems
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: eBook, 75 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"This volume is in part translation from the Arabic parables, in part written directly in English. A small book of only seventy pages, it is a product of the poet's youth and early manhood, rich with promise of what was to follow. It is entirely of the East, with no shading... Read more >
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Love's Ripening
Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $14.00
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master’s many volumes of work, focus on... Read more >
Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $14.00
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master’s many volumes of work, focus on... Read more >
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Songs of Love and War
Afghan Women's Poetry
Written by Sayd Majrouh
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $14.95
The authors of oral literature in the Pashtun language create their work at a far remove from any books. Generally deprived of the support of schools and universities, their compositions are inseparable from song. Their poetry is never declaimed; rather, their rhyme and rhythm have melodic value.
These popular improvisations do not... Read more >
Afghan Women's Poetry
Written by Sayd Majrouh
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $14.95
The authors of oral literature in the Pashtun language create their work at a far remove from any books. Generally deprived of the support of schools and universities, their compositions are inseparable from song. Their poetry is never declaimed; rather, their rhyme and rhythm have melodic value.
These popular improvisations do not... Read more >
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Love's Ripening
Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $18.95
Although alone, the lover is never lonely,
Forever hidden with the Beloved.
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in... Read more >
Rumi on the Heart's Journey
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $18.95
Although alone, the lover is never lonely,
Forever hidden with the Beloved.
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Pocket Rumi
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Edited by Kabir Helminski
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $8.95
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is a collection of the best of Rumi’s... Read more >
Written by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Edited by Kabir Helminski
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $8.95
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is a collection of the best of Rumi’s... Read more >
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Belonging
New Poetry by Iranians Around the World
Edited by Niloufar Talebi
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $18.95
Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran... Read more >
New Poetry by Iranians Around the World
Edited by Niloufar Talebi
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $18.95
Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran... Read more >
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Rumi
Written by Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.50
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences.
Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who... Read more >
Written by Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.50
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences.
Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who... Read more >
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The Rumi Collection
Written by Jelaluddin Rumi
Edited by Kabir Helminski
Introduction by Andrew Harvey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2005
Price: $18.95
Rumi's poems are beloved for their touching perceptions of humanity and the Divine. Here is a rich introduction to the work of the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his verse. Translators include Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Daniel Liebert, and Peter Lamborn Wilson... Read more >
Written by Jelaluddin Rumi
Edited by Kabir Helminski
Introduction by Andrew Harvey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2005
Price: $18.95
Rumi's poems are beloved for their touching perceptions of humanity and the Divine. Here is a rich introduction to the work of the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his verse. Translators include Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Daniel Liebert, and Peter Lamborn Wilson... Read more >
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Hafiz of Shiraz
Written by Peter Avery
Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2003
Price: $14.00
"Hafiz--a quarry of imagery in which poets of all ages might mine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hafiz was born at Shiraz, in Persia, some time after 1320, and died there in 1389. He is, then, an almost exact contemporary of Chaucer. His standing in Persian literature ranks him with Shakespeare and Goethe. A... Read more >
Written by Peter Avery
Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2003
Price: $14.00
"Hafiz--a quarry of imagery in which poets of all ages might mine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hafiz was born at Shiraz, in Persia, some time after 1320, and died there in 1389. He is, then, an almost exact contemporary of Chaucer. His standing in Persian literature ranks him with Shakespeare and Goethe. A... Read more >
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