Love’s Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi

I first heard of Coleman Barks in 1995 while watching Bil Moyers' poetry series, The Language of Life on PBS (filmed on location at the fifth biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo, New Jersey).

Here is an excerpt featuring Moyers' interview with Coleman Barks as he discusses the Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi. For me, this was the most captivating moment of the series.*

 

* My next post has an extended version of this interview found on YouTube.

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