Coleman Barks | |
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| Born | Coleman Bryan Barks April 23, 1937 Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | American poetry |
| Notable works | Gourd Seed, The Essential Rumi |
| Spouse | Kittsu Greenwood (1962–?, divorced) |
| Children | Benjamin, Cole |
| Relatives | Elizabeth Barks Cox (sister) |
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Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian,[1] he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations.[1]
- ^ a b Barks, Coleman (2004). The Essential Rumi: New Expanded Edition. Harper Collins Publishers. p. 365.
On the more literal level, the texts I work from to produce these poems are unpublished translations done by John Moyne, Emeritus Head of Linguistics at the City University of New York, and the following translations by Reynold Nicholson and A. J. Arberry, the famous Cambridge Islamicists...