Open Secret: Versions of Rumi by Coleman Barks and John Moyne

Rumi’s quatrains and odes appear here in English versions by Coleman Barks and John Moyne. Open Secret presents an intimate, human side of the Persian poet and mystic through poems of love, sorrow, joy and encounter with the divine.

For readers who approach spiritual questions through poetry, this short collection offers pieces to revisit slowly rather than a system of instruction. Rumi is the original poet; Barks and Moyne provide the English versions. Shambhala paperback; ISBN 9781570625299.