Rumi: Tales of the Spirit

In Rumi: Tales of the Spirit, award-winning author and playwright Kamla Kapur reanimates twelve stories drawn from the work of the enduring poet and mystic. At once gentle, searching, and occasionally fierce, these tales consider suffering, prayer, perseverance, and surrender to a larger cosmic order.

Kapur, who has studied Rumi for twenty years, brings close attention to his life and writing alongside a clear understanding of the human condition and contemporary literature. The result remains grounded in the time and place of Rumi’s original work while offering a thoughtful companion for life’s difficulties and joys.