Title: The Idiot's Guide Rumi book by explains Rumi better
Product review: As some posters have pointed out, Barks is far from faithful to Rumi's original words. I have some literal translations from the Persian and when I compare them to Barks translations, he is way off base. Can you call something that is not rumi as rumi? Barks also gives unsatisfactory summaries of who rumi was and what he stood for. Folks, he was not some flower child with roses in his hair dancing in the night to a candle! The best (I think) overview of who rumi was and what his poetry really stands for is in this book I got 3 months ago:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rumi MeditationsI felt like this was the first time I got a realistic picture of this great poet and spiritual master. Any books that you get that make rumi's poems out to be some new-agey feelgood gobeldy gook are not ral rumi poems.
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