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  <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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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  <title><![CDATA[The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia : Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz : Lectures on Persian Poetry]]></title>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael Green]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[I Want Burning: The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Moyne]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gourd Seed: Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tentmaking:  Poems and Prose Paragraphs]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (A Brown Thrasher Books Original)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stallion on a Frozen Lake: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Year with Rumi, A]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rumi]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Coleman Barks]]></name>
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