Coleman Barks

American poet

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Lived 1937–2026, aged 89United States

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Updated 2026-06-20

Coleman Bryan Barks was an American poet and literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither spoke nor read Persian, he was a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations.

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