Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)

Threshold Books, 1986 - Poetry - 83 pages

In some languages of the Middle East the word for "rain" and the work for "grace" are the same. These quatrains are evidence of the invisible grace falling on our earth, a grace received by the mature spirit of master poet Jelaluddin Rumi.

About the author

Coleman Barks was born on April 23, 1937, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1972 he has taught English at the University of Georgia at Athens. Barks received the New England/Breadloaf Quarterly Narrative Poem Prize and the Southern Poetry Review's Guy Owen Award. His collections of poetry include The Juice and Gourd Seed. Barks is perhaps better known as a translator of the poet Rumi, a thirteenth century Mystic. Rumi is cpnsidered the greatest mystic of the Sufi religion and wrote extensively in Farsi, the language of Iran.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi; Poetry, Sufism
• Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
• Editors: John Moyne, Coleman Barks
• Translated by: John Moyne, Coleman Barks
• Publisher: Threshold Books, 1986
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 13, 2008
• ISBN: 0939660164, 9780939660162
• Length: 83 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious