Product Description: "When grapes turn to wine, they long for our ability to change." This collection of 12 versions of Rumi poems by Robert Bly captures the wisdom, humor, and profound spirituality of this ecstatic poet. This reprint of the l983 letterpress edition by Firefly Press contains Bly?s first versions of Sufi mystical poetry...read more

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Concentrates on Rilke's lesser-known poems, including poems left in manuscript and some of Rilke's occasional verse, in this dual-language collection

Product Description: Seventeen poems of Rumi, a 13th-century Persian mystic, in English versions by Robert Bly and Coleman Barks. These poems express a longing for the "Mystical Friend," a spiritual guide, or brother. "When Things are Heard" from the collection is featured on Keith Jarrett's double album, Invocations and The Moth and the Flame on ECM Records...read more

Product Description: The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life...read more