Soul of rumi : a new collection of ecstatic poems / translations, introductions, and notes by Coleman Barks.

Contents: Rumi's Life and Times -- Some Claims About Poetry and Consciousness -- Fana and Baqa -- The Question of the Personal -- A Green Shawl: Solomon's Far Mosque -- Entrance Door -- What Was Told, That -- Mary's Hiding -- I want to be where ... -- Would you like to have revealed to you ... -- Imagining is like feeling around ... -- The Husk and Core of Masculinity -- Initiation: The Necessary Pain of Changing -- Work in the Invisible -- A Necessary Autumn Inside Each -- Pain -- A Surprise of Roses -- More Range -- Choose a Suffering -- Climb to the Execution Place -- Watch a One-Year-Old -- Baqa: Inside This Ordinary Daylight -- Walkingstick Dragon -- The Opener -- Soul Light and Sun the Same -- The Pattern Improves -- You're from a country beyond this universe ... -- Essence is emptiness ... -- We're not afraid of God's blade ... -- Come to this street with ... -- Spring overall. But inside us ... -- This is how I would die ... -- How will you know the difficulties ... -- Love is the way messengers ... -- Begin -- Back to Being -- Three Travelers Tell Their Dreams -- This Speech: The Source of Dream Vision -- Looking into the Creek -- Forth -- Hometown Streets -- A Trace -- Creator of Absence and Presence -- A Ship Gliding over Nothing -- Omar and the Old Poet -- One Altar: The Inner Meaning of Religions -- One Song -- The Indian Tree -- Your Face -- Let the Way Itself Arrive -- A Cross-Eyed Student -- Dear Soul -- Four Words for What We Want -- Four Interrupted Prayers -- Spiritual Windowshoppers -- The clear bead at the center