Translated by Coleman Barks for the first time and introduced with a fascinating and personal essay, these poems serve as a record of the transcendent friendship between Rumi and the Shams of Tabriz.

"Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on these particular poems has never been published anywhere....

"The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume of the Divan of Rumi"--Provided by publisher.

"Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his thirty years of translating Rumi, has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any form."--Provided by publisher.

"DuoJalal's Rumi experience is inspired by the work of the 13th century Persian poet and mystic Jalal al-din Rumi (1207-1283)."--Container