Hand of Poetry by Barks, Coleman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Foreword Publisher’s Preface to the 2011 Revised Edition Translator’s Preface THE MYSTIC POETS OF PERSIA

The Poet and the Prophet The Mystic Poets of Persia I The Mystic Poets of Persia II

SANAI: THE GOOD DARKNESS

Translator’s Introduction Teaching Schoolboys Streaming The Wild Rose of Praise Energetic Work The Good Darkness Naked in the Bee-House Earthworm Guidance The Puzzle The Time Needed A Soul’s Journey Through the Time-Worlds

FARIDUDDIN ATTAR

Fariduddin Attar

ATTAR STREET SWEEPER

Translator’s Introduction The Woman Who Dressed as a Man Listening to the Reed Flute Street-Sweeper Looking for Your Own Face The Newborn Mysticism From The Conference of the Birds

JELALUDDIN RUMI

Jelaluddin Rumi

RUMI BIRDSONG MOVING THROUGH US LIKE RAIN

Translator’s Introduction We Point to the New Moon The Reed Flute Full Moon, Bilal Say Who I Am Blessing the Marriage of the Daughter of: Saladin Zarkub to Nizam al-din Kattat. A Story Shams Told Dying New Moon, Hilal You don’t win here with loud publicity Humble living does not diminish Some souls flow like clear water A craftsman pulled a reed They say I tell the truth Don’t try to hold on to this Leave, with your scholarship Friend, this talking about you You that hand me this cup Now The Lame Goat

SHAIKH MUSLIHUDDIN SAADI

Shaikh Muslihuddin Saadi

SAADI A WIFE AND A WASPS’ NEST

Translator’s Introduction I heard of a man once A certain man, completely naked A powerful, but moody, man A man had a beautiful wife They put a crow in the cage with a parrot I asked a scholar A dervish’s wife was pregnant Having tired of the company In Baghdad an old man The King of Arabia heard the story A certain man entered the city Whoever advises a self-sufficient man This happened when I was young One night I was thinking

KHWAJA SHAMSUDDIN MOHAMMED HAFIZ

Khwaja Shamsuddin Mohammed Hafiz

HAFIZ A DAZZLING TURN

Translator’s Introduction The Quarry The Wild Deer Renunciation, and the Other Mystery The Substance You Taste Pour Me More The Danger The Zikr Circle The Wind of an Opening Rose A Daughter Your Gestures Growing Tulips Midnight Question Almost Empty I See The Brim Ruknabad Allahu Akbar Pass My Response to Your Offer Lost Shiraz Water Running Together The Signal to Begin The Banquet Shhh A Shift in the Breeze That Moment in This Taking a Riddle into the Tavern Remember The New Guide Inscriptions Over the Door The Wine of the Question Returning

A Note on These Translations Sources About Coleman Barks Hazrat Inayat Khan