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The Poet Rumi at 800
ResumeToday, his ecstatic, sensual poetry of love and spiritual seeking fills volumes of the hottest-selling poetry in America. Where contemporary Islam can look severe, Rumi looks lush, sounds gorgeous, and reads like heaven.
This hour, On Point: the great mystic. Reading Rumi at eight hundred.Guests:
James Morris, professor of theology at Boston College.
Fatemeh Keshavarz, chair of the department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis and author of "Jasmines and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran."
Coleman Barks, author of "Rumi: Bridge to the Soul," "The Essential Rumi," "Rumi: The Book of Love," and others collections.
This program aired on October 5, 2007.