The GIFT
Poems by niel LadinskyHafiz the Great Sufi Master, Hafiz
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This book is published 2 years ago, but I want to represent here,
'Cause this is one of the Greatest "Gift" from My friend,
Cheers MATT. I just Pick up another poem,,, My FAV... A+ |
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love Says, "I will take care of you," To everything that is Near. |
Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com
($13.95 paperback original; Aug.; 326 pp.; 0-14-019581-5)
Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union with the divine. In The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky bestows on us the impassioned yet whimsical strains of Hafiz's ecstasy. Never forced or awkward, Ladinsky's Hafiz whispers in your ear and pounds in your chest, naming God in a hundred metaphors.
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once asked a bird, "How is it that you fly in this gravity Of darkness?" She responded, "Love lifts Me." |
Like Fitzgerald's
version of Khayyam's Rubaiyat, the language of The Gift strikes a contemporary
chord, resonating in the reader's mind and then in the heart. Ladinsky's
language is plain, fresh, playful--dancing with an expert cadence that
invites and surprises. If it is true, as Hafiz says, that a poet is someone
who can pour light into a cup, reading Ladinsky's Hafiz is like gulping
down the sun. --Brian Bruya
From
Kirkus Reviews
The Gift : A worthy companion volume to Coleman Bankss new translation
of Rumi. It collects 250 poems written by Muhammad Hafiz, 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. His fabulistic, almost
didactic style can sound a bit flat at times (How / Do I / Listen to others?
/ As if everyone were my Master / Speaking to me / His / Last / Words),
but there is a religious intensity in his work that is equally fresh and
naive (When no one is looking and I want / To kiss / God / I just lift
my own hand / To / My / Mouth) and quite unlike anything found in the
Western tradition (though modern minimalists such as Robert Lax come close).
A fine preface by Ladinsky and an excellent introduction by Henry S. Mindlin.
-- Copyright /Kirkus Associates
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