I WANT BURNING: THE ECSTATIC WORLD OF RUMI, HAFIZ AND LALLA
Coleman Barks
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Release Date: 01-04-2001
Label: Sounds True
Catalog Number: AW00488D
Barcode: 600835048828
Musical Style: Spoken Word / Sufism
Description:
Why is a 700-year-old mystic named Jelaluddin Rumi the #1-selling poet in America? The answer to that question is simple: Coleman Barks. From his immensely popular translations of Rumi to his featured appearances on public television, this award-winning poet has almost single-handedly brought ecstatic Sufi poetry into the mainstream of English-language readers. On I Want Burning, listeners will join Coleman Barks in an inspired evening featuring three literary legends of the 14th-century Middle East: Jelaluddin Rumi; Hafiz (the all-time favorite poet of the Persian world); and Lalla, the astonishing Kashmiri woman poet, singer, and dancer. Includes more than fifty poems, accompanied by vocals, pan flute, harmonium bells, and hand drums.
Biography:
Coleman Barks is a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. In addition to publishing two books of his own poetry (The Juice and Gourd Seed),Barks has published 12 volumes of translations from Rumi and others,and contributed to over 20 anthologies. The next edition of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces will include selections of his Rumi translations. He is currently a member of the English Department at the University of Georgia.
Additional Attributes:
| Relaxing | Uplifting | Meditative | Exercise | Healing | Chant |
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