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Coleman Barks

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born

Chattanooga, TN, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.colemanbarks.com/

genre

Poetry

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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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Books by Coleman Barks

Average rating: 4.43 · 10,925 ratings · 542 reviews · 60 distinct works

	A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings 4.48 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart 4.37 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia: Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz by Coleman Barks (Translator), Sanai, Farid ud-Din Attar 4.48 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Rumi, Coleman Barks 4.42 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 1250 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis by Coleman Barks, Michael Green 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Essential Rumi by Rumi, Coleman Barks 4.43 avg rating — 7,881 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	My rating:
	I Want Burning 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi by Coleman Barks, John Moyne 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Rumi: Voice of Longing 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Naked Song: Poems 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Coleman Barks

“From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'

Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry ways to the shore.
-Rumi”
― Coleman Barks, Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart

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“…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.”
― Coleman Barks, Essential Rumi

tags: glory-of-life , rumi , spirituality

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