Coleman Barks

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Some Kiss 00:00 Tools
The Freshness 00:00 Tools
Again, The Violet Bows To The Lily 00:00 Tools
Birdsong Brings Relief 00:00 Tools
The Death of Saladin 00:00 Tools
This Is How I Would Die 00:00 Tools
Sitting Together 00:00 Tools
Soul Of The World 00:00 Tools
the soul must suffer secrets 00:00 Tools
Amazed Mouth 00:00 Tools
The Road Home 00:00 Tools
On The Day I Die 00:00 Tools
Looking Into The Creek 00:00 Tools
The Music We Are 00:00 Tools
Green Meadows 00:00 Tools
School Mosque Minaret 00:00 Tools
One Swaying Being 00:00 Tools
This we have now 00:00 Tools
A Cap 00:00 Tools
This is Enough 00:00 Tools
The Source of Joy and Roses Underfoot 00:00 Tools
Three Travelers 00:00 Tools
Now Lay Me Down 00:00 Tools
i saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow 00:00 Tools
Like Light Over The Plain 00:00 Tools
There You Are 00:00 Tools
Mounted Man 00:00 Tools
Intricate Sounds, Not Words. I Catch 00:00 Tools
Shadow and Light Source Both 00:00 Tools
In This River The Soul Is A Waterwheel 00:00 Tools
TheIndian Tree Bone Song 00:00 Tools
Walnuts 00:00 Tools
The Souls Friend 00:00 Tools
In My Heart, No. 27: Some Kiss 00:00 Tools
Like This 00:00 Tools
You Said, "Who's At The Door?" 00:00 Tools
A Bowl 00:00 Tools
A Hat To Wear In Both Worlds 00:00 Tools
Someone May Be Clairvoyant, Able To See 00:00 Tools
In My Heart, No. 27: The Freshness 00:00 Tools
A Grainy Taste 00:00 Tools
What Was Told 00:00 Tools
Selected Rumi Quatrains 00:00 Tools
Lalla Poems 00:00 Tools
Hafiz Poems 00:00 Tools
I, You, He, She, We 00:00 Tools
Love Comes With A Knife, Not Some Shy Question 00:00 Tools
A Sufi Was Wandering The World 00:00 Tools
Before Muhammed Appeared In Physical Form 00:00 Tools
The New Rule 00:00 Tools
Introduction About The Dervish Community - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
On Resurrection Day Your Body Testifies Against You 00:00 Tools
Jars Of Springwater 00:00 Tools
Say I Am You 00:00 Tools
I Have Lived On The Lip Of Insanity 00:00 Tools
Moses Heard A Shepherd On The Road Praying 00:00 Tools
These Winter Skies 00:00 Tools
Last Night My Teacher Taught Me The Lesson Of Poverty 00:00 Tools
Those Full Of Fear Are Not Really On The Way 00:00 Tools
There Is Some Kiss We Want 00:00 Tools
There Is No Prison So Dark And Small 00:00 Tools
Moses And The Shepard 00:00 Tools
Someone Say, Sanai Is Dead 00:00 Tools
Love Comes With A Knife, Not Some Shy Question (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Introduction About The Dervish Community 00:00 Tools
Moses and the Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Abcission Leaf 00:00 Tools
We Tremble, Thinking We're About To Dissolve 00:00 Tools
This We Have Now - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
A Sufi Was Wandering The World (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Selected Rumi Quatrains - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Who Says Words With My Mouth 00:00 Tools
Someone May Be Clairvoyant, Able To See (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Like This - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Hafiz Poems - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
I Have Lived On The Lip Of Insanity - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Who Says Words With My Mouth? 00:00 Tools
The New Rule - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Watertrance 00:00 Tools
A Bowl - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Say I Am You - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
On Resurrection Day Your Body Testifies Against You (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
We Tremble, Thinking We're About To Dissolve (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Introduction about Dervish community 00:00 Tools
Last Night My Teacher Taught Me The Lesson Of Poverty (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Those Full Of Fear Are Not Really On The Way (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Someone Say, Sanai Is Dead (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
An Invisible Bee 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
A Hat To Wear In Both Worlds - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
The Speed Of Conciousness 00:00 Tools
Selected Rumi Quatrains III - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Translation from Rumi (Coleman Barks) 00:00 Tools
There Is Some Kiss We Want - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
The Indian Tree Bone Song 00:00 Tools
Selected Rumi Quatrains II 00:00 Tools
Moses And The Shepard - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
There Is No Prison So Dark And Small (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Selected Rumi Quatrains II - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Who Says Words With My Mouth - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Rumi: Poet of Divine Ecstasy (Unabridged) 00:00 Tools
Lalla Poems - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
Hafiz Poem "A Wild Daughter Has Been Lost" - Coleman Barks 00:00 Tools
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Coleman Barks (b. 1937) is an American poet and world-renowned translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia. Barks is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Berkeley. Barks taught literature at the University of Georgia for three decades. He currently lives in Athens, Georgia, where he translates Rumi and composes poetry of his own. Barks 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. Rumi translations Barks has published several volumes of Rumi's poetry since 1976, including The Hand of Poetry, Five Mystic Poets of Persia in 1993, The Essential Rumi in 1995 and The Book of Love in 2003. Barks does not speak Persian, but bases his translations entirely on other English translations of Rumi. This includes translations by John Moyne. In addition, while the original Persian poetry of Rumi is heavily rhymed and metered, Barks has used primarily free verse. This has led some to criticize Barks' works as essentially original creations, while others laud his efforts at providing the essence of Rumi's poetry in an accessible format. Barks has published several volumes of his own poetry, including Gourd Seed, Tentmaking, and Granddaughter Poems in 2001, a collaboration between Barks and his granddaughter Briny Barks. Granddaughter Poems is a collection of Coleman's poetry about his granddaughter and drawings by Briny. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.