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Coleman Barks

The Soul of Rumi (Harper San Francisco) Rumi's ancient mystical poetry swings between ideals of transcendence and destruction. Coleman Barks explores the extreme polarities that underlie the work...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Dec 20, 2001 • 30m Listen

The Soul of Rumi

(Harper San Francisco)

Rumi's ancient mystical poetry swings between ideals of transcendence and destruction. Having spent twenty-five years translating this ecstatic Sufi mystic, Coleman Barks explores the extreme polarities that underlie the work. Read an

excerpt from

The Soul of Rumi.

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