The soul of Rumi a new collection of ecstatic poems

Main Author:	Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273
Other Authors:	Barks, Coleman.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Persian
Published:	San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Rumi, > Maulana, > 1207-1273 > Translations into English. Sufi poetry, Persian > Translations into English. Poetry, Sufi.

Physical Description:	425 p.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0060604530 (cloth : alk. paper)
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)