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_bE54 1990
082 0 0 _a891.5511 JAL
100 1 _aJalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana
_d(1207-1273)
240 1 0 _aDivan-i Shams-i Tabrizi
_l. English
_k. Selections
245 1 0 _aLike this /
_b: Rumi ; versions by Coleman Barks
260 _a[Athens, GA]
_b: Maypop
_c, c1990.
300 _a64 p.
_c; 23 cm.
500 _aBased on translations by A.J. Arberry.
520 _aOne of meanings of "Adam" in Hebrew is "like," implying "like God" : A human being is a resemblance. Rumi opens the poetry of this. A man walking back into a house becomes the Resurrection. People dancing the roof at night describe the constellations. The sight of a familiar head around the edge of a door is love returning to surprise the world.
650 4 _aPoetry
700 1 _aBarks, Coleman
700 1 _aArberry, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
_d, 1905-1969
942 _cMO
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