In one poem, this poet claimed that “I do not exist, / am not an entity in this world or in the next.” In another poem, this poet asks the “dissolver of sugar” to “dissolve [him], if this is the (15[1])time”. One translator rendered a line by this poet as “This being human is a guest house / Every morning a new arrival,” which that translator read aloud on a 2015 song. A poem by this author (15[1])describes the “crying sound” of an object lamenting “the pain of separation” after instructing the reader to “listen to the story of the (*) reed.” Translations by Coleman Barks have led this poet (10[2])of “Song of the Reed-Flute” to be described as the “best-selling poet in the United States,” despite Barks removing most of the Islamic references and not knowing Persian. For 10 points, the 50,000-line Masvani, or Spiritual Couplets, is by what Sufi poet? ■END■