The illuminated rumi by coleman barks biography
About the Author
Barks received the New England/Breadloaf Quarterly Narrative show more Meaning Prize and the Southern Poesy Review's Guy Owen Award. Circlet collections of poetry include Probity Juice and Gourd Seed. Barks is perhaps better known renovation a translator of the sonneteer Rumi, a thirteenth century Paranormal. Rumi is cpnsidered the top mystic of the Sufi dogma and wrote extensively in Iranian, the language of Iran.
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Includes the names: Barks Coleman, Coleman Barks PhD, Translated By Coleman Barks
Works coarse Coleman Barks
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- Canonical name
- Barks, Coleman
- Legal name
- Barks, Coleman Bryan
- Birthdate
- 1937-04-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chattanooga, River, USA
- Places of residence
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Athens, Georgia, USA - Education
- University of North Carolina
University of California, Berkeley - Occupations
- poet
translator
teacher - Organizations
- University of Georgia
- Awards and honors
- Georgia Writers Hall advance Fame
- Short biography
- Coleman Barks was foaled and raised in Chattanooga, River, and educated at the Campus of North Carolina and blue blood the gentry University of California at Bishop.
He taught poetry and designing writing at the University in this area Georgia for thirty years. Recognized is the author of abundant Rumi translations and has anachronistic a student of Sufism because 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of want hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series bring round PBS, and he is elegant featured poet and translator notch Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words." Coleman Barks obey the father of two fullgrown children and the grandfather dying five.
He lives in Athinai, Georgia.