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You're listening to Insights at the Edge.

Today my guest is Coleman Barks. Coleman Barks is a leading scholar

and translator of the 13th century Persian mystic Jalaladin Rumi. He taught poetry and creative writing

at the University of Georgia for 30 years and is the author of numerous Rumi translations

and has been a student of Sufism since

1977.

His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyer's Language

of Life series on PBS.

With Sounds True, Coleman Barks has released the audio programs, I Want Burning, the ecstatic world of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lala, a CD called Rumi, Voice of Longing,

and also a brand new, beautiful, three-CD collection, which is a collaboration between Coleman Barks and cellist

David Darling. It's called Just Being Here, Rumi and Human Friendship. In this episode of

Insights at the Edge, Coleman Barks and I spoke about the relationship between Rumi and his teacher,

whom he called the friend, Shams of Tabriz,

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