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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Celebrating the Spoken Word: Rumi and the Mystery that Cannot Be Said


Coleman Barks has been a primary translator/interpreter of the poetry of the 13th-century Persian poet, Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi. Here we have three short poems from Barks' translation which he recites with musical accompaniment. He also offers a brief commentary on how Rumi's poetry is understood "with some deeper part of our being."






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