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I Want Burning: The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla [UNABRIDGED]  
Author: Coleman Barks (Editor)
ISBN: 1564558304
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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A translator of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla brings their words to life in an electric performance at a small club. The room is filled with awe for these thirteen- and fourteenth-century poets as the breathy, in-your-face narrator, Coleman Barks, holds his audience's attention in a death grip for the entire 74 minutes. The accompanying exotic music is as rough and interesting as the author's blue-collar voice--music so erotic and intrusive that for most listeners it will be either a fascinating listening focus or a huge distraction. The editor's sparse introductions are marvelously unpretentious. He seems to respect the listener's openness to the poems, rather than trying too hard to orchestrate how they are comprehended. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine




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