Name: winter sky
Price: 1129.00 TWD
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Author: Coleman Barks
ISBN: 9780820340869

Type

Physical Book

Author

Coleman Barks

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0820340863

ISBN13

9780820340869

Synopsis "winter sky"

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.

Coleman Barks

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Coleman Barks is an American poet and former faculty member of literature at the University of Georgia. Although he does not speak or read Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi and rewrites the poems based on other English translations.

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