One-Handed Basket Weaving: Poems on the Theme of Work by Coleman Barks, Rumi

One-Handed Basket Weaving: Poems on the Theme of Work

Coleman Barks, Rumi

132 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Sufis refer to themselves as "workers" and "lovers" interchangeably, and the action that needs doing always involves a companionship with the spiritual world. In these poems from the Mathnawi, Rumi finds metaphors for that mysterious cooperation, ...

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