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The Gift

by Hafiz
The Gift

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ISBN13: 9780140195811
ISBN10: 0140195815
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Like a love letter from a dear friend, this book of poems is a balm, a solace, a surprise, and an inspiration. Hafiz knew God is everywhere, and he made of himself a mirror to reflect divine light. In just one lovely example, he wrote, "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions." Recommended By Jennifer K., Powells.com

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More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. Each line of The Gift imparts the wonderful qualities of this spiritual teacher: an audacious love that empowers lives, profound knowledge, wild generosity, and a sweet, playful genius unparalleled in world literature.

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"For those initiated in colder faces of worship, this Sufi's passionate freedom as God's loving partner is beyond heartwarming; reinvigorate yourself y opening any page and accepting its call." Napra Review

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"A worthy companion volume to Coleman Banks's new translation of Rumi. It collects 250 poems written by Muhammad Hafiz (1320–89), the most popular and highly revered poet in Persian history, and renders them into a fresh translation from the Farsi. Like Rumi, Hafiz writes out of the Sufi tradition, and his work bears the Sufi hallmarks of ecstatic spirituality conveyed at once through lush imagery and verbal restraint....A fine preface by Ladinsky and an excellent introduction by Henry S. Mindlin." Kirkus Reviews

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Daniel Ladinsky has published three previous translations of Hafiz's poems, The Gift, The Subject Tonight Is Love, and I Heard God Laughing, as well as a collection of translations of poems by twelve mystics and saints, Love Poems From God. His most recent collection is The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi. For six years, he made his home in a spiritual community in western India, where he worked and lived with the intimate disciples and family of Avatar Meher Baba. He lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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Kristina , December 04, 2017 (view all comments by Kristina)
Hafiz, the great Persian poet, lived in Shiraz (modern Iran) from 1320-1389. His beautiful poems are as relevant today as if they had been written by someone in our own age, illustrating the timeless struggles and joys of the human condition. Read this poetry – it is spiritually nourishing, deeply comforting, and provides food for thought.

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anarkali , March 15, 2008 (view all comments by anarkali)
It is misleading to the point of deceptive to describe this book as a "translation" of Hafiz. Ladinsky does not speak Persian, and so cannot read Hafiz in the original. Nor has he based his poems on previous translations. Rather, he believes these poems to have been divininely chanelled - what Hafiz might have written if he were an American baby-boomer disciple of Meher Baba. You may or may not choose to believe this, and you may or may not enjoy the poems, but it is certainly worth buying a "real" translation of Hafiz so that you can compare for yourself. Personally, I far prefer Hafiz (and Rumi, and Kabir and all the various poets that Ladinsky has claimed to channel over the years) to Ladinsky.

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aliki27 , May 19, 2007
Reading Hafiz is like laying on your back on soft green grass, sun on your skin, a sweet breeze you can really taste, and the hush beating of birds' wings above your head.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140195811
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/01/1999
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Series info:
Compass
Pages:
352
Height:
.93IN
Width:
5.46IN
Thickness:
1.00
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1999
Series Volume:
no. 8
UPC Code:
2800140195813
Author:
Daniel Ladinsky
Author:
Hafiz
Translator:
Daniel Ladinsky
Author:
Hafiz
Author:
Ohaafioz
Subject:
Translations into english
Subject:
Classics-Medieval and Renaissance General
Subject:
Sufi poetry, Persian -- Translations into English.
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
Sufi poetry, Persian

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