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ONE SONG:  A New Illuminated Rumi 
Special music edition with accompanying CD, to be published September, 2005

Award-winning artist Michael Green, creator with Coleman Barks of the national 
best-seller THE ILLUMINATED RUMI, has now finished a stunning sequel with all-new 
art and fresh translations of Rumi’s poetry. Included in this new volume is a CD 
of The Illumination Band playing a new kind of music fusing Rumi’s mystical 
longing and the yearning harmonies of our own mountain-blues-gospel traditions. 
These are Persian quatrains delivered as poignant country ballads you might hear 
in a West–Texas truck stop.

Rumi reminds us of the radiant depth inside that is present in grief and love, 
in being ecstatically here in the moment. What he celebrates is One Song with 
many names, the soul, Buddha, the person of Christ. Rumi praises them all at 
one table. There is no quarrel about names of scriptures in Rumi. A philosopher 
and mystic of Islam, Rumi’s appeal to people of all faiths is undeniable. 
His work does not divide—it includes.

One Song represents a nourishing exchange for present-day East and West—just as 
the Silk Road was in Rumi’s day a way for the beauties of the great religions, 
story-tellers, poets and their music to flow together and mix into a new and 
vibrant fusion.

Once again, Michael Green marries word and image—and now sound, to help make 
America’s most popular poet accessible to a whole new audience. He and the band 
will be making a nationwide concert tour.

About the Book
Title: One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi
Author: Michael Green
Publication Date: September 2005
Price: $35.00
8 1/2 x 11 • 128 pp. Hardcover
ISBN: 0-7624-2087-1