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Title: Rumi Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems by Jelaluddin Rumi, Coleman Barks ISBN: 0-9618916-7-X Publisher: Maypop Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid Sufi (ecstatic religious) poetry
Comment: Birdsong contains 53 short poems that are reworkings of the translation by A. J. Arberry, a major scholar of Sufism.
Not all of the poems have any direct relationship to birds, rather the birdsong of the title refers to a common metaphor in mystic traditions e.g. The Conference of the Birds, a major Sufi work.
Barks, as usual, provides excellent translations; he truly makes the poetry of Rumi accessible to the average reader (as compared to some scholarly translations that are precise but no longer poetry or that require technical vocabulary).
His selection of poems is also excellent; they are poems that encourage meditative thought. An example: "Stars burn clear / all night till dawn. / Do that yourself, and a spring / will rise in the dark with water / your deepest thirst is for. "
Rating: 5
Summary: All I want now to do or hear is poetry!
Comment: Rumi is brilliant in his acuteness. Birdsong only makes me want to learn and read more about this impressionable thinker. His words truly hold the essence of life. Recommneded to all who adore poetry.
Rating: 2
Summary: Where's Rumi?
Comment: Persian period of that time is complex and formal. Mowlana is a master of poetry as well as a master of Sufi. His depth, artistry, and complexity is missing. I also find it a little deceptive to call oneself a "translator" when one does not read or speak the language from which he is supposedly translating.
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Title: Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi by Coleman Barks, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi ISBN: 0961891610 Publisher: Maypop Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Say I Am You: Poetry Interspersed With Stories of Rumi and Shams by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John Moyne, Coleman Barks ISBN: 1884237002 Publisher: Maypop Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Like This: Rumi ; Versions by Coleman Barks by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks, Rumi, A. J. Arberry ISBN: 0961891629 Publisher: Maypop Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Rumi: We Are Three : New Rumi Poems by Coleman Barks ISBN: 0961891602 Publisher: Maypop Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Shahram Shiva ISBN: 0875730841 Publisher: Jain Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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