Name: a year with rumi,daily readings
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Author: Coleman Barks
ISBN: 9780060845971

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Physical Book

Author

Coleman Barks

Publisher

HarperOne

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

19.3 x 14.9 x 3.4 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN

006084597X

ISBN13

9780060845971

Synopsis "a year with rumi,daily readings"

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 and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.

Coleman Barks

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Coleman Barks is an American poet and former faculty member of literature at the University of Georgia. Although he does not speak or read Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi and rewrites the poems based on other English translations.

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