Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace, and Human Friendship
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
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The Relationship Between Roomy and Sham's
Coleman: My teacher, Bawa Muhayedeen, once told me, you know, roomy and sham's art to me talking about himself, are not literary figures. They're not people in a book. So that gave me sense. He allowed me, I think, entrance into the vast identity of those two and that friendship somehow. If I hadn't met him, it wouldn't be the same. His access to the poems would not be as intimate maybe as it feels now.
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