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These Branching Moments:
Forty Odes by Jelaluddin Rumi
  
Translated by John Moyne & Coleman Barks
ISBN 0-914278-50-9
$10.00 US

In these acclaimed English versions, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic poet who wrote in Persian and founded in Turkey the Order of Whirling Dervishes has become the best-selling poet in twenty-first century America.

His passionate conviction that loving the earth and one another in the person of the “Friend” is true reverence recalls, closer to our day, Walt Whitman’s faith that “you shall yet find the friend that you are looking for.”
—Cooper Beech