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  • Rumi

  • Poet of Divine Ecstasy
  • By: Coleman Barks
  • Narrated by: Michael Toms
  • Length: 50 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)

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Rumi

By: Coleman Barks
Narrated by: Michael Toms
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Publisher's summary

Drunk with the Divine, Rumi wrote 20,000 poems of mystical, ineffable love of God. "There is a ferocity in his longing that maybe we don't understand," says Barks. Listen in and understand a little better. A wondrous, exhilarating look at the exultant poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi, the 13th century Sufi poet, with Coleman Barks.

Coleman Barks taught poetry at the University of Georgia for many years, and is translator of The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems (HarperSanFrancisco 2001); The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis (Ballantine Wellspring 2000); co-translator of The Essential Rumi (HarperSanFrancisco 1997) and co-translator (with John Moyne) of two volumes of Rumi poems, Unseen Rain (Threshold Books 1986) and Open Secret (Threshold Books 1984);

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Shamz/Rumi meet Barks

One part Rumi, one part Coleman Barks. Gives me a sense of Rumi's human & saint.

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