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2007-is-the-“Year-of-Rumi,”-and-who-better-than-Coleman-Barks,-Rumi’s-unlikely,-supremely-passionate-ambassador,-to-mark-the-milestone-of-this-great-poet’s-800th-birthday?-Barks,-who-was-recently-awarded-an-honorary-doctorate-in-Persian-language-and-literature-by-the-University-of-Tehran-for-his-thirty-years-of-translating-Rumi,-has-collected-and-translated-ninety-new-poems,-most-of-them-never-published-before-in-any-form.-The-result-is-this-beautiful-edition-titled Rumi:-Bridge-to-the-Soul.-The-“bridge”-in-the-title-is-a-reference-to-the-Khajou-Bridge-in-Isphahan,-Iran,-which-Barks-visited-with-Robert-Bly-in-May-of-2006—a-trip-that-in-many-ways-prompted-this-book.-The-“soul-bridge”-also-suggests-Rumi-himself,-who-crosses-cultures-and-religions-and-brings-us-all-together-to-listen-to-his-words,-regardless-of-origin-or-creed.-Open-this-book-and-let-Rumi’s-poetry-carry-you-into-the-interior-silence-and-joy-of-the-spirit,-the-place-that-unites-conscious-knowing-with-a-deeper,-more-soul
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