A year with Rumi : daily readings

Format:

Book

Title:

A year with Rumi : daily readings

Author:

Barks, Coleman.

ISBN:

9780060845971

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

426 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Based on A.J. Arberry and R.A. Nicholson's translations of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's poems.

Includes index.

Summary:

Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks's elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi's greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems. Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.

Subject(s):

Persian poetry -- 13th century -- Translations into English.

Genre:

poetry.

Translations.

Added Author:

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.

Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne, 1868-1945.

Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969.

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.

Author Notes

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 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)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Barks, himself a poet, is one of the great contemporary popularizers of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet Rumi, now certainly jockeying with Rilke for top position as the people's poet. Rumi's verse speaks ecstatically of the love of God; he eludes easy categorization, which is doubtless why he appeals to so many both in the Islamic world and in the West. These translations are not new but are newly disposed to fit a calendar year, and the intensity and strange majesty of Rumi is not thereby diminished. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.