An Exalted Sky, Exulting: Rumi-inspired poems by Coleman Barks

Product Description Coleman Barks is an American poet and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia, known and loved for the accessibility of his English translations of more than a dozen volumes of Rumi’s poetry, including The Illuminated Rumi (1997) and The Essential Rumi (1995), often in collaboration with Persian scholar John Moyne. Barks’s translation work was the focus of an episode of Bill Moyers’s PBS series The Language of Life, and he has collaboratively produced his Rumi translations with music and dance ensembles including the Paul Winter Consort and Zuleikha. Contents An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 A Note for the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Reviews Mountain to mountain cannot reach but heart to heart can. Coleman Barks with his new book, 'An Exalted Sky, Exulting' reaches to the hearts of those who believe that God is love and love is God. Coleman fills the souls of millions of people with the fragrances of the dawn-scented flowers of Rumi's poetry. Coleman whispers to our hearts with a Divine message that through love we live forever. Without it, we die every minute. Masood Khalili, Warrior and Poet of Afghanistan