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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

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    The Soul of Rumi.

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