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Ecstatic Sufi Poetry Comes Alive To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: stirred ablaze by inspired music and rhythms before a live audience. On I Want Burning, Coleman Barks fuses his passionate scholarship with a deep...

How does a body of poetry written in a remote part of the world find its way to best seller lists in the U.S. over 700 years later? What is the compelling quality inherent in great literature that resonates throughout the ages? Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Jelalludin Rumi's poetry, explores the genius, mystery and rapture of Rumi's work; why he has become the most-read poet in America, and what his poetry has in common with the immortal writings of Dickinson, Emerson and Thoreau.

When Diana, 24, wakes after a night of passion with an old college friend Sandra, she finds herself alone. Or not quite alone, because Maria, Sandra's cleaner, is soon letting herself into the plush apartment. Feeling that she should have been satisfied by her incredible night with Sandra, Diana nevertheless finds herself drawn to Maria, a beautiful Spanish woman. Maria, 22, is quite short, but also extremely strong. Her large bust is packed tight into a short black dress and her voice ripples with sunshine.

Eighteen-year-old Bondi Ashborne never knew he could breathe fire, never knew that the government was rounding up people like him and slamming them into concentration camps. No, all he knows is that life as a gay quarter-dragon in a fully-human town couldn’t be harder for him.