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Coleman Barks

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Born: April 22 1937

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Coleman Barks is an American poet. Despite the fact that he admittedly speaks no Persian, he is world-renowned as a translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia. Barks taught literature at the University of Georgia for three decades. He makes frequent international appearances and is well-known throughout the Middle East. Barks's work has contributed to an extremely strong following of Rumi in the English-speaking world. Due to his work, the ideas of Sufism have crossed many cultural boundaries over the past few decades. Coleman Barks received an honorary doctorate from Tehran University in 2006.

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Coleman Barks

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Books from Coleman Barks

The Essential Rumi

The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

The Illuminated Rumi

A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart

The Big Red Book

The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting

Open Secret: Versions of Rumi

The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis

The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia: Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz

I Want Burning: The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla

Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of the Father of Rumi

Naked Song: Poems

This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters

The Essential Rumi: by Coleman Barks

Islam & World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008