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by: Coleman Barks
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780820332376
ISBN: 0820332372
Label: University of Georgia Press
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 15, 2008
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Sales Rank: 579617
Studio: University of Georgia Press
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As the foremost translator of thirteenth-century mystic poet Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks reaches a devoted, inspired, and ever-widening international audience. Yet the foundation for Barks's work as a translator is his own significant body of work as a poet. Winter Sky offers a selection from Barks's seven previously published books combined with a group of new poems.
Barks's open-hearted, free verse poetry is infused with a joy of the spirit at play with the forms of the world. His journey through life is deeply embedded in his work. The poems spring directly from experience and engage with subjects such as the elation and struggle of having and raising children, grief over the deaths of loved ones, the transition from parent to grandparent, or the changing nature and intensity of desire. Barks's open letter to President Bush, written days before the invasion of Iraq and widely circulated online, is a poetic plea for peace, offering a startling and moving alternative to war.
Whether it is the childhood excitement of being named best athlete at summer camp or the early signs of dementia at the age of seventy, Barks uses the personal to convey the universal. The unique flow of a life is here in poems that are rueful, confused, torn, and grateful, but always informed by Barks's transcendent sense of joy and playfulness.
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Rating: - Coleman Bark's Winter Skky
Winter Sky will probably rank as one of the best works by Coleman Barks.
He is a master. And his style is unique. I find that it is a celebration of life. Not just his but everyone who reads it. I love his Southern expressions which come from that deep listening. The mannerisms that only a person coming from the "Deep South" would know. He ranks as one of a kind. I"m proud that Coleman has given his gift to the world.
Rumi would be proud.
Mary Morgan
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