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Book 1, The Tavern : Chapter 1, Introduction & The Tavern through to Feeling Separation

• "The Essential Rumi" has multiple introductions, including one for the New Expanded Edition published in 1995.

• Scholar Coleman Barks has translated much of Rumi's work, as well as 81 poems included in this book that have never before appeared in English.

• Barks began translating Rumi in 1976 and has devoted himself to translating and understanding the poet's work ever since.

• Over time, Barks' feelings about the messages found within the poems have changed.
• Part of the scholar's experience as a translator of Rumi's poetry is transcendental.

• Rumi was a mystic Persian poet who lived during the 13th century AD.

• The poet was a sheik, teacher, religious leader, and scholar.

• It is challenging to accurately translate such advanced works that come from another culture and an era so far in the past.
• Rumi was born in 1207 in a region of what...

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