Ecstatic Sufi Poetry Comes Alive! To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: read with passion and stirred ablaze by inspired music. On I Want Burning, Coleman Barks fuses his rich scholarship with a real feeling for the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla. Hafiz: The Scent of Light—translated by Daniel Ladinsky—brings alive more than 30 of Hafiz’ exquisite gazals (love poems), each shimmering with a nuance and depth rarely captured in previous translations.