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...most responsible for Rumi's popularity in the West today is Coleman Barks, a poet and retired professor of English at the University of Georgia. Humble and soft-spoken, Barks acknowledges that his translations are often far from exact renditions of the Farsi of Rumi's day?which in any case he doesn't speak. To create them, he has used literal translations provided by others. Barks' emphasis on poetic essence over linguistic exactitude owes a strong debt to earlier poet-translators like Robert Bly, Kenneth Rexroth and Ezra Pound who championed a style of direct, aggressively unacademic translation. Following...
What does it take to become a successful poet today? Basically, a miracle. Books of poetry, after all, rarely sell. A few thousand copies are considered more than respectable by most publishers. A few hundred thousand? Only the rarest and luckiest of American poets have seen such numbers. Just ask the best-selling poet in the U.S. today. Then again, don't bother. A Muslim mystic born in Central Asia almost eight centuries ago, he is no longer available for comment...
...enthusiastic crowd came to hear Robert Creeley, Martin Espada and former poet laureate Robert Pinsky read from their own poems and from works that remind them of the Harvard Square landmark...
Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye introduced “renaissance man” Cohen to the forum as a “great novelist and poet,” urging members of the audience to read Cohen’s three novels and two volumes of poetry...
Some say that the holy books of the great western faiths were written by God through the hand of man. But maybe all of these great religions are wrong. Perhaps God was truly waiting to write through the hand of an Elizabethan poet. Perhaps, if we can truly understand this greatest of works, our self-understanding will be complete. Perhaps this is His true Revelation, set before us in an infinitely-layered riddle, a Gordian knot that not even the sword of Alexander could hope to break. And the genius of the riddle is that though it can never...