The poems inHummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barkss personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barkss appearance on PBS NewsHour, a note Keats once left on Wordsworths mantelpiece, a splinter in the heel, and a quote from the Upanishads-all make their way into Barkss most recent poems, which achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.About the Author:COLEMAN BARKS is the best-selling translator of The Essential Rumi The Soul of Rumi, and Rumi: The Book of Love and author of numerous volumes of poetry including Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 (Georgia). He taught creative writing and American poetry in the English Department at the University of Georgia for thirty years and currently lives in Athens, Georgia.