To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: stirred ablaze by inspired music and rhythms before a live audience. With I Want Burning, the brilliant translator Coleman Barks and his friends invite you to join them in an evening of celebration featuring three literary legends of the 13th and 14th centuries:

• Jelaluddin Rumi - the Sufi poet who has ignited the hearts of generations with his wildly insightful poetry
• Hafiz - the most popular poet in the Persian world, Hafiz continues to marvel audiences with his unparalleled illuminations on love in all its guises
• Lalla - the astonishing, little-known Kashmiri poet who sang and danced her verses with such passion that she was known to tear her garments off in a frenzy of ecstasy

If you have never heard a live performance with Coleman Barks and friends, I Want Burning will be a revelation in the ecstatic spiritual poetry of Rumi and his contemporaries. Accompanied by vocals, pan flute, harmonium, bells, and hand drums.

Coleman Barks
...is a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. In addition to publishing two books of his own poetry (The Juice and Gourd Seed), Barks has published 12 volumes of translations from Rumi and others, and contributed to more than 20 anthologies. The next edition of the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces will include a selection of his Rumi translations. He is currently a member of the English Department at the University of Georgia.

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