Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart
by Coleman Barks, Jalal al-Din Rumi (Author)
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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. show more 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 prompted this book. The "soul bridge" also suggests Rumi himself, who crosses cultures and religions and brings us all together to listen to his words, regardless of origin or creed. Open this book and let Rumi's poetry carry you into the interior silence and joy of the spirit, the place that unites conscious knowing with a deeper, more soulful understanding. show lessTags
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Rumi
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- 13th century; Islamic Golden Age; Middle Ages
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
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- 891.551009 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Iranian literatures Modern Persian / Farsi literature (8th century CE to present) Persian poetry History and criticism of Persian poetry
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- PK6480 .E5 .B373 — Language and Literature Indo-Iranian languages and literatures Indo-Iranian philology and literature Iranian philology and literature New Persian Literature Individual authors or works Jala_l al-D i_n Ru_m i_ Maulana
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