The illuminated Rumi / [translations & commentary by Coleman Barks ; illustrations by Michael Green].

By:

Jalåal al-Dåin Råumåi, Maulana, 1207-1273 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Original language: Persian Series: RumiPublisher: New York : Broadway BooksCopyright date: ©1997Edition: First editionDescription: 125 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Audience:

General

ISBN:

0767900022 (hc)

Uniform titles:

Selections. English. 1997.

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Poetry.

DDC classification:

891/.5511 21

LOC classification:

PK6481.E5 J35 1997

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Summary: Rumi has, to the recent amazement of many people in the Western culture as well as the Islamic culture, been able to speak directly to contemporary readers. One of the greatest pieces of good luck that has happened recently in American poetry is Coleman Barks's agreement to translate poem after poem of Rumi. Rumi, like Kabir, is able to contain and continue intricate theological arguments and at the same time speak directly from the heart or to the heart. Coleman's exquisite sensitivity to the flacvor and turns of ordinary American speech has produced marvelous lines, full of flavor and Sufi humor, as well as the intimacy that is carried inside American speech at it's best." - Robert Bly

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Rumi has, to the recent amazement of many people in the Western culture as well as the Islamic culture, been able to speak directly to contemporary readers. One of the greatest pieces of good luck that has happened recently in American poetry is Coleman Barks's agreement to translate poem after poem of Rumi. Rumi, like Kabir, is able to contain and continue intricate theological arguments and at the same time speak directly from the heart or to the heart. Coleman's exquisite sensitivity to the flacvor and turns of ordinary American speech has produced marvelous lines, full of flavor and Sufi humor, as well as the intimacy that is carried inside American speech at it's best." - Robert Bly

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