Coleman Barks
Autore di A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Opere di Coleman Barks
Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship (2010) 139 copie
Xenia: A Hoard of Lost Words, Eighteenth-Century Street Lingo, and a Few Completely Confabulated Terms Collected and… (1994) 18 copie
Essential Rumi - reissue 1 copia
Rumi, Toronto festival 1 copia
Bridge to the Soul 1 copia
We're Laughing at the Damage 1 copia
La esencia de Rumi 1 copia
Early Autumn 1 copia
Poetry and Conversation 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems (2001) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 577 copie
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing (2003) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 555 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Autore — 280 copie
The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi (2004) — Traduttore — 94 copie
Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories (2009) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 10 copie
Tao Te Ching, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Tibetan Book of The Dead, The Essential Rumi, The Essential Kabbalah, & The Way of… (1997) — Traduttore — 2 copie
The Language of Life: Love's Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi (1995, television episode 2) (1995) — Poet, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
One Through Love : A Gathering of Lovers [video recording] (2012) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Barks, Coleman
- Nome legale
- Barks, Coleman Bryan
- Data di nascita
- 1937-04-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Athens, Georgia, USA - Istruzione
- University of North Carolina
University of California, Berkeley - Attività lavorative
- poet
translator
teacher - Organizzazioni
- University of Georgia
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
- Breve biografia
- 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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- ISBN
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