Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds - erotic, divine, friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the ???wholeness??? one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover???s loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship - these poems cover all ???the magnificent regions of the heart???.