Coleman Barks's works include the bestselling Essential Rumi (1995) and Rumi: The Big Red Book (2010), which collects thirty-four years of his work on Rumi's ghazals and rubai. In 2008, the University of Georgia Press published Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008, and in spring 2013 will release Hummingbird Sleep, Poems 2009-2011. Barks taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years.
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