Coleman Barks
Autor von A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Über den Autor
Coleman Barks was born on April 23, 1937, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1972 he has taught English at the University of Georgia at Athens. Barks received the New England/Breadloaf Quarterly Narrative mehr anzeigen Poem Prize and the Southern Poetry Review's Guy Owen Award. His collections of poetry include The Juice and Gourd Seed. Barks is perhaps better known as a translator of the poet Rumi, a thirteenth century Mystic. Rumi is cpnsidered the greatest mystic of the Sufi religion and wrote extensively in Farsi, the language of Iran. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Werke von Coleman Barks
Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship (2010) 136 Exemplare
Xenia: A Hoard of Lost Words, Eighteenth-Century Street Lingo, and a Few Completely Confabulated Terms Collected and… (1994) 16 Exemplare
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing 6 Exemplare
Coleman Barks: Back from Afghanistan. c.1 1 Exemplar
Rumi, Toronto festival 1 Exemplar
We're Laughing at the Damage 1 Exemplar
The Ultimate Rumi Collection 3 Books Box Set 1 Exemplar
Bridge to the Soul 1 Exemplar
La esencia de Rumi 1 Exemplar
Early Autumn 1 Exemplar
RUMI SOUL FURY 1 Exemplar
Poetry and Conversation 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems (2001) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 571 Exemplare
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing (2003) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 551 Exemplare
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Autor — 278 Exemplare
The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi (2004) — Übersetzer — 94 Exemplare
Tales of a Modern Sufi: The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories (2009) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 10 Exemplare
Tao Te Ching, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Tibetan Book of The Dead, The Essential Rumi, The Essential Kabbalah, & The Way of… (1997) — Übersetzer — 2 Exemplare
The Language of Life: Love's Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi (1995, television episode 2) (1995) — Poet, einige Ausgaben — 1 Exemplar
One Through Love : A Gathering of Lovers [video recording] (2012) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 1 Exemplar
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Barks, Coleman Bryan
- Geburtstag
- 1937-04-23
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Wohnorte
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Athens, Georgia, USA - Ausbildung
- University of North Carolina
University of California, Berkeley - Berufe
- poet
translator
teacher - Organisationen
- University of Georgia
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
- Kurzbiographie
- Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words." Coleman Barks is the father of two grown children and the grandfather of five. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Listen
Auszeichnungen
Dir gefällt vielleicht auch
Nahestehende Autoren
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 39
- Auch von
- 18
- Mitglieder
- 937
- Beliebtheit
- #27,412
- Bewertung
- 4.3
- Rezensionen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 46
- Favoriten
- 41