A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks’s translations of Rumi’s sensual, mysterious, and deeply spiritual poetry, including fifteen never—before—published works.

A Year with Rumi contains a detailed introduction by Barks, “The Love Religion, Wild Soulbooks, and What Is,” as well as an afterword, “Amergin’s Song and What Moves through Time.” It was featured in Oprah W...