A Year With Rumi – Coleman Barks

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The poetry feels like it belongs to all. When Rumi died in 1273, members of all religions came to the funeral. Wherever you stand, his words deepen your connection to the mystery of being alive. ” Through Coleman Barks’ translations, Rumi is the world’s most popular poet. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Bark’s elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi’s greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems.

Barks includes an introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred withing and without. Join them in recognizing and embracing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all.