The Love Poems of Rumi

These poems reflect the deepest longings of the human heart as it searches for the divine. They celebrate love. Each poetic whisper is urgent, expressing the desire that penetrates human relationships and inspires intimacy with the self, silently nurturing an affinity for the Beloved.

Both Fereydoun Kia, the translator and I hope that you will share the experience of ravishing ectasy that the poems of Rumi evoked in us. In this volume we have sought to capure in English the dreams, wishes, hopes, desires, adn feelings of a Persian poet who continues to amaze, bewilder, confound, and teach one thousand years after he walked this earth.