voc, *1937 US, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Jazz, Rock, Spoken Word, Folk and World
Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He 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 Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words."
Tuatara & Coleman Barks |
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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The Here And The Gone | Tuatara, Coleman Barks | 2008 | Album |