The Subject Tonight is Love - 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz

Zusatztext “There are universes inside Hafiz! a lineage of masters. Daniel Ladinsky follows the playfulness; the rascal moves well.”  — Coleman Barks     Informationen zum Autor Daniel Ladinsky Klappentext A rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet Hafiz to Western readers, from bestselling poet Daniel Ladinsky Perhaps more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of verse. Acclaimed poet Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to create modern, inspired renderings of the world's most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky's renderings, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the centuries, singing his timeless message of love. With this stunning collection, Ladinsky has once again succeeded brilliantly in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and spiritual voices. "Ladinsky is a master who will be remembered for finally bringing Hafiz alive in the West." -Alexandra Marks, The Christian Science Monitor Zusammenfassung Daniel Ladinsky’s unforgettable lyrical poems are inspired by the cherished verse of Hafiz, one of the greatest Sufi poets of all time. Perhaps more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of verse.  Daniel Ladinsky’s poems are not translations in a literal sense.  Rather than capture the form of a particular classical poem, Ladinsky has made it his life’s work to create modern interpretations inspired by the world’s most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky’s poems, Hafiz’s voice comes alive across the centuries, singing his timeless message of love. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Subject Tonight Is LoveIntroduction Where Dolphins Dance The Woman I Love Forgiveness Is the Cash All the Hemispheres The Vegetables At This Party Why All This Talk? In a Handful of God Because of Our Wisdom We Keep Each Other Happy Castrating an Ego This Place Where You Are Right Now In a Tree House We Are a Couple of Barroom Sailors No Other Kind of Light Not with Wings Venus Just Asked Me The Size of the Love Bruise The Theater of Freedom You Say, I Say Where Do You Think You Will Be? The Day Sky Among Strong Men Beautiful Hands Old Sweet Beggar Out of the Mouths of a Thousand Birds I Knew We Would Be Friends Build a House for Men That Sounds Wonderful A Singing Cleaning Woman Your Shape of Laughter Something I Have Learned And a Big Herd of Sweet Goats Narrow the Difference The Small Table of Time and Space The Happy Virus The Wonderful Lawlessness They Call to You to Sing Your Medicine It Happens All the Time in Heaven The Guardians of His Beauty The Subject Tonight Is Love I Saw You Dancing Never Say It Is Not God Absolutely Clear Ten Thousand Idiots To Anything That Moved Carrying God I Cherish Your Ears Deepening the Wonder Will Beat You Up I Follow Barefoot Join Me in the Pure Atmosphere Some Angels Grumble Playing in the Brilliance Like the Ganges And Acting So Cool A Potted Plant Just Sit There A Suspended Blue Ocean...

List of contents

The Subject Tonight Is LoveIntroduction
Where Dolphins Dance
The Woman I Love
Forgiveness Is the Cash
All the Hemispheres
The Vegetables
At This Party
Why All This Talk?
In a Handful of God
Because of Our Wisdom
We Keep Each Other Happy
Castrating an Ego
This Place Where You Are Right Now
In a Tree House
We Are a Couple of Barroom Sailors
No Other Kind of Light
Not with Wings
Venus Just Asked Me
The Size of the Love Bruise
The Theater of Freedom
You Say, I Say
Where Do You Think You Will Be?
The Day Sky
Among Strong Men
Beautiful Hands
Old Sweet Beggar
Out of the Mouths of a Thousand Birds
I Knew We Would Be Friends
Build a House for Men
That Sounds Wonderful
A Singing Cleaning Woman
Your Shape of Laughter
Something I Have Learned
And a Big Herd of Sweet Goats
Narrow the Difference
The Small Table of Time and Space
The Happy Virus
The Wonderful Lawlessness
They Call to You to Sing
Your Medicine
It Happens All the Time in Heaven
The Guardians of His Beauty
The Subject Tonight Is Love
I Saw You Dancing
Never Say It Is Not God
Absolutely Clear
Ten Thousand Idiots
To Anything That Moved
Carrying God
I Cherish Your Ears
Deepening the Wonder
Will Beat You Up
I Follow Barefoot
Join Me in the Pure Atmosphere
Some Angels Grumble
Playing in the Brilliance
Like the Ganges
And Acting So Cool
A Potted Plant
Just Sit There
A Suspended Blue Ocean

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Product details

• Authors: Hafis, Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky
• Assisted by: Daniel Ladinsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.01.2003
• EAN: 9780140196238
• ISBN: 978-0-14-019623-8
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Compass; Compass
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama