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The Essential Rumi
The translations that brought Rumi to the Western world. Sacred, sensual, and timeless.
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Coleman Barks
Poet and former English professor at Georgia who, working from John Moyne's literal translations, rendered Rumi into the colloquial American English that made the thirteenth-century Sufi poet the best-selling poet in the United States by the 1990s.
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