Love Is a Stranger: Selected Lyric Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Kabir Helminski)

"Love is a stranger and speaks a strange language," wrote Rumi, one of the world's most beloved mystical poets. His poems of spiritual love still speak directly to our hearts after more than seven hundred years. These classic selections contemplate separation and longing, intoxication and bliss, union and transcendence.