Coleman Barks

Rumi: Bridge to the Soul

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2007 is the Year of Rumi, and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionate ambassador, to mark the milestone of this great poet's 800th birthday? Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his thirty years of translating Rumi, has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any form. The result is this beautiful edition titled Rumi: Bridge to the Soul. The bridge in the title is a reference to the Khajou Bridge in Isphahan, Iran, which Barks visited with Robert Bly in May of 2006—a trip that in many ways… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-175339-8
EAN: 9780061753398
Produktnummer: 29227718
Verlag: Harper Collins
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Coleman Barks is a renowned poet and the bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, Rumi: The Big Red Book, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in both of Bill Moyers' PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and Fooling with Words. He taught English and poetry at the University of Georgia for thirty years, and he now focuses on writing, readings, and performances.