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Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.

This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems. Exalted yearning, ravishing ecstasy, and consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on their creation more than 700 years ago.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments (p. 7)
• Acknowledgments (p. 9)
• Introduction (p. 11)
• The Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent: The Moods of Rumi (p. 15)
• The Agony of Lovers (p. 17)
• The Alchemy of Love (p. 18)
• Aroused Passion (p. 20)
• The Awakening (p. 21)
• Behind the Scenes (p. 23)
• My Beloved (p. 24)
• Bittersweet (p. 25)
• My Burning Heart (p. 28)
• Caught in the Fire of Love (p. 30)
• Come to Me (p. 31)
• Defeated by Love (p. 33)
• Desire (p. 34)
• Do You Love Me? (p. 35)
• Dying to Love (p. 37)
• The Hunt (p. 39)
• I Am and I Am Not (p. 40)
• I Am Yours (p. 42)
• Intoxicated by Love (p. 43)
• Looking for Love (p. 44)
• Looking for Your Face (p. 45)
• Lost in the Wilderness (p. 48)
• The Lover's Passion (p. 49)
• The Meaning of Love (p. 50)
• The Mythical Lover (p. 51)
• Precious Love (p. 53)
• Surrender (p. 55)
• The Privileged Lovers (p. 56)
• Excerpts from Birdsong:
• "Love is the way messengers" (p. 59)
• "A lightwind coming downhill" (p. 60)
• "People want you to be happy" (p. 61)
• "In your light I learn how to love" (p. 62)
• Recommended Reading (p. 63)