Coleman Barks
By: producer, Dominique Lasseur ; director, Catherine Tatge ; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. with Tatge/Lasseur Productions ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York
Contributors: Moyers, Bill D.; Barks, Coleman; Public Affairs Television (Firm); Tatge/Lasseur Productions; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Films for the Humanities (Firm); Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival (1998 : Waterloo Village, N.J.)
Series: Sounds of poetry with Bill Moyers
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Interviews; American Poets; Persian Sufi poetry; Translations into English; Poetry; Translating; Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival (1998 : Waterloo Village, N.J.)
Other titles: Sounds of poetry with Bill Moyers.; Sounds of poetry (Television program)
Description: Coleman Barks, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia, has become the primary conduit for translating into English the ecstatic poetry of the 13th-century Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi, the bard of Islam. In this program, Bill Moyers and Dr. Barks discuss topics including the intricate challenge of transforming antiquated Persian idiom into modern English while retaining its essence.
Notes: Originally broadcast as a segment of: Sounds of poetry.

Directory of photography, Joel Shapiro; editor, Joel Katz; music, The Paul Winter Consort.

Interviewer: Bill Moyers.

Recorded at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo Village, New Jersey in 1998.

DVD.