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A Year with Rumi

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A Year with Rumi( )
Author: Barks, Coleman
ISBN:978-0-06-084597-1
Publication Date:Jan 2007
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $44.99
Book Description:

Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks's elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi's greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems.

Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within...
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Islam / Sufi
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.8 x 19.4 x 3.5 cm
Book Weight:0.484 Kilograms
Author Biography
Barks, Coleman (Author)
Coleman Barks was born on April 23, 1937, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1972 he has taught English at the University of Georgia at Athens.

Barks received the New England/Breadloaf Quarterly Narrative Poem Prize and the Southern Poetry Review's Guy Owen Award. His collections of poetry include The Juice and Gourd Seed. Barks is perhaps better known as a translator of the poet Rumi, a thirteenth century Mystic. Rumi is cpnsidered the greatest mystic of the Sufi religion and wrote extensively in Farsi, the language of Iran.

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