Fw: [Sca-cooks] FW: Turkish Recipe

[Volker Bach]

Am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 11:18 schrieb Laura C. Minnick:
> At 02:08 AM 5/16/2005, you wrote:
> >Incidentally, I just ordered a translation of some of his poems
> >(food--related
> >ones figure prominently in this one, according to the blurb) and the
> > Amazon website lists three reviews. They begin:
> >
> >"America's best-selling poet, 14th century Sufi bard..."
> >
> >"America's bestselling poet, 13th century Sufi bard..."
> >
> >"In the form of an anthology, this translation brings together
> >translations ... of the poetry of the 12th century Persian mystic..."
> >
> >If he wrote a dietary manual I want it. Think about it, 300 years.... ;)
>
> Hey, I want to know who dubbed him 'America's best-selling poet'- if only
> so I can grab up some Whitman or Dickinson or Frost or Ginsburg or Hughes
> or Sandburg or... and SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR THROAT!

A person named Brian Bruya, in both cases, interestingly enough. 

However, 'best-selling' depends on the time period you choose to observe. 
Maybe Rumi outsold the American classics for 16 days in early December 2003? 

Giano