Coleman Barks
Auteur van A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van Coleman Barks
Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship (2010) 139 exemplaren
Xenia: A Hoard of Lost Words, Eighteenth-Century Street Lingo, and a Few Completely Confabulated Terms Collected and… (1994) 18 exemplaren
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing 6 exemplaren
The Essential Rumi - reissue New Expanded Edition 4 exemplaren
The Ultimate Rumi Collection 3 Books Box Set 1 exemplaar
Rumi, Toronto festival 1 exemplaar
Essential Rumi - reissue 1 exemplaar
Coleman Barks: Back from Afghanistan. c.1 1 exemplaar
We're Laughing at the Damage 1 exemplaar
Bridge to the Soul 1 exemplaar
La esencia de Rumi 1 exemplaar
Early Autumn 1 exemplaar
Poetry and Conversation 1 exemplaar
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems (2001) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 577 exemplaren
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing (2003) — Vertaler, sommige edities; Vertaler, sommige edities — 553 exemplaren
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Auteur — 280 exemplaren
The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi (2004) — Vertaler — 94 exemplaren
Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories (2009) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 10 exemplaren
Tao Te Ching, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Tibetan Book of The Dead, The Essential Rumi, The Essential Kabbalah, & The Way of… (1997) — Vertaler — 2 exemplaren
The Language of Life: Love's Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi (1995, television episode 2) (1995) — Poet, sommige edities — 1 exemplaar
One Through Love : A Gathering of Lovers [video recording] (2012) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 1 exemplaar
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- Barks, Coleman Bryan
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- 1937-04-23
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- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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- University of North Carolina
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- University of Georgia
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- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
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- Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words." Coleman Barks is the father of two grown children and the grandfather of five. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
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