Winter Sky by Coleman Barks
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 is a master of the complicated human poemSome poets open their poems to what is Significant. Barks sets down the remarks that a waitress said to him one night in a late-night restaurant. There is a great unfolding of the world here.
-- Robert BlyWhy do people read poems? For comfort and a sense of companionship, for encouragement, for the beauty of language, for energy placed on the page with a wish to give it away. Coleman Barks is one of the best. He has given us Rumi. Now he gives us his own work, which is thoughtful, compassionate, attentive and, at times, positively frisky. We are all enriched by his presence in this collection of his own poems. My advice: get a copy as fast as you can and, by the influence of his voice which honors both the vatic and the experience of his own singular life, be both comforted and mindfully enlivened.
-- Mary OliverReading Coleman Barks is the equivalent of a rich transfusion of vitality. His writings carry a huge generosity of spirit replenishing everything good, funny, brave, brilliant, honest, readers could ever hope for. Nothing rejected or shunned, but life in all its conflicted elegance graciously taken into the circle and tossed up into new light: one of the widest-open, wildest voices we might ever embrace.
-- Naomi Shihab NyeCOLEMAN BARKS (1937-2026) was the best-selling translator of The Essential Rumi The Soul of Rumi, and Rumi: The Book of Love and author of numerous volumes of poetry including Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011 and Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (both Georgia). He taught creative writing and American poetry in the English Department at the University of Georgia for thirty years and lived in Athens, Georgia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820340869 |
| ISBN 10 | 0820340863 |
| Title | Winter Sky |
| Author | Coleman Barks |
| Series | Brown Thrasher Books |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 2012-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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