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The Gift Best Price: $8.98 This collection of poems is perhaps the best of Hafiz, and what makes them really come alive is... | I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy Best Price: $8.46 I've read other translators of Hafiz, Rumi, etc. and while I do not speak the original language,... | The Illuminated Rumi Best Price: $16.88 This book will disappoint anyone who has seriously delved into the writings of Rumi. It is hard... | Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing Best Price: $4.50 As with all Rumis poetry and Coleman Barks translations this is a goose bump inducing beauty. I... | The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz Best Price: $7.32 The poet Hafiz provides short poems that I read to my wife as we prepare to sleep. There is... |
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The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.95 . . . . it is instructive and corrective to have a glimpse of
what was: a lyrical, medeivalist... | Gibran's Little Book of Love Best Price: $5.30 This was a wonderful little book that I purchased for a good friend. I didn't realize that it... | The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication Best Price: $8.84 THE FORBIDDEN RUMI: THE SUPPRESSED POEMS OF RUMI ON LOVE, HERESY, AND INTOXICATION presents the... | The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems Best Price: $6.99 Rumi is one of my favorite poets but Barks does not do him justice. The translation poorly... | The Love Poems of Rumi Best Price: $5.90 Rumi and Deepak, a union made in heaven:)
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Rumi: Voice of Longing Best Price: $13.60 I'm sorry I purchased this set. The "narrators" voice is very jarring and does not... | One Song: A New Illuminated Rumi Best Price: $19.68 Spectacular! I am a Rumi scholar and I learned a great deal more from this fabulous presentation... | Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts (Three Continents Press) Best Price: $16.95 As a poetry lover, it is a shame that I have only recently discovered Nizar Kabbani, one of the... | Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak Best Price: $7.50 very beautiful...Most honest and captivating poems I have ever read. very good that someone... | Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond Best Price: $14.53 The presentation gives a fairly complete rendition
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Open Closed Open: Poems Best Price: $0.48 I cannot say if this represents the best of Yehuda Amichai or whether his earlier work was... | Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran Best Price: $7.47 Optimistic and wise, these love poems convey a mystical certainty of the arrival of love, while... | The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition (Literature of the Middle East) Best Price: $10.00 To read Yehuda Amichai in English is to sojourn, yes, in Jerusalem, more, in Amichai's denuded... | I Want Burning: The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla Best Price: $7.99 Coleman Barks has captured the essence of Rumi with his captivating, mysterious southern voice... | Wine of the Mystic : The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : A Spiritual Interpretation Best Price: $17.56 The spiritual interpretation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Paramahansa... |
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Essential Rumi Best Price: $6.88 don't get hung up on the hang ups of scholars and other strait-jacket types. this stuff is rumi... | The Poems of Hafez Best Price: $13.91 At last an English translation of Hafez that isn't a "version" based on someone else's... | Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz Best Price: $7.52 IT IS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE TO GO BACK SO FAR IN THE PAST AND FIND LOVE. THE BOOK CREATES A... | The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul Best Price: $18.14 This is a great book. It is professionally translated and the words flow naturally. The... | Vis and Ramin Best Price: $22.00 Translation isn't easy, especially from a language whose aesthetic is as far from that of... |
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Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (Scala Translation) Best Price: $12.29 The power behind poetry is as much in what is written as what is left unsaid. Poetry is the art... | On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (Poetry Series) Best Price: $20.55 This book is a great intro to Mr. Qabbani's poetry. Everything about it is well done. Cover art,... | So What: New and Selected Poems 1973-2005 Best Price: $10.50 I am a Palestinian and the poetry evoked memories of my youth. Arabic poetry is full of imagery... | The Mathnawi of Jalalu'Ddin Rumi (Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rimi) (Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rimi) Best Price: $26.46 I am the formless form
I operate on myself in this way so that I am continuously arriving
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Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi Best Price: $7.50 How beautiful the translations:
Night comes so people can sleep like fish
in black water.... | The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda Best Price: $18.64 Not only are Zelda's poems "spectacular," but Marcia Falk's opening narrative is... | Love, Death, and Exile: Poems Translated from Arabic Best Price: $13.75 I say this is the most powerful poetry I have read in my life. I cannot read it for more than a... | Open Secret: Versions of Rumi Best Price: $8.68 Here is Mevlana. In his words he lives with us, harmonizing our souls, hearts, and minds. ... | Flowers of Perhaps (Hebrew Classics) Best Price: $8.60 Perhaps part of the thematic appeal of Ra'hel's (Hebrew) poetry is that they lament the passing... |
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The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam: From the Persian National Epic, the Shahname of Abdol-Qasem Ferdowsi (Publications on the Near East, University of Washington) Best Price: $14.95 This book is surely a must for any student of classical Persian literature. The original... | The Burda of Al-Busiri Best Price: $75.95 The review is limited to only 1000 words... there are not enough words to describe the state of... | Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems Best Price: $16.75 This book is absolutely exquisite! I only hope that someday I can read it in its original... | Hafiz 2009 Wall Calendar Best Price: $11.89 'A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful,... | Carousing with Gazelles: Homoerotic Songs of Old Baghdad Best Price: $6.22 Although this is very nice work I have given only three stars because it is so short. It... |
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India Divided: Diversity and Democracy under Attack Best Price: $7.38 Physicist-turned-environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Dr. Vandana Shiva... | The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry Best Price: $8.21 One of my favorite collections of the Persian Sufi poets, some you may have heard of and others... | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Best Price: $1.94 A little repetitive...
No point in worrying... enjoy life at the moment... can't control... | Rumi: A Spiritual Treasury Best Price: $8.10 I love this book! I really felt I connected to Rumi's ideas and could understand Sufi thought... | Victims of a Map Best Price: $11.96 There can be no doubt that Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are among the leading poets... |
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Love Mad: Poems of Rumi Best Price: $13.33 Rumi, or The Master as he is referred to in Greater Iran, recited his poetry in a state of... | A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading & Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century Best Price: $22.44 This book is the only one of its kind for anyone who wants to learn about Persian poetry in the... | El profeta Best Price: $6.37 Before I purchased this book I would like to have known that the translator was not up to the... | Ramopakhyana - The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata: A Sanskrit Independent-Study Reader Best Price: $59.60 The best I ever met in my studying sanskrit. Perfect glossary and gramatical analysis. In... | Shahnameh: The Persian Book Of Kings (Slipcase Set) Best Price: $290.00 'The Book of the Kings' is the national epic of the Persian peoples. No other work captures so... |
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The Adam of Two Edens Best Price: $10.00 Unless your interest is specifically political poetry, I recommend reading "Unfortunately,... | Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) Best Price: $19.95 Bialik was a great poet.
Don't let Atar's biased view of him take over. Bialik had, indeed,... | Hafiz 2008 Calendar Best Price: $12.16 This is such a beautiful calendar! I rarely hang a calendar on my wall but the illustrations... | The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis (Literature of the Middle East) Best Price: $13.08 Dan Pagis along with his good friend T. Carmi was a great scholar poet. His poetry combines a... | A Tale of Two Gardens: Poems from India 1952-1995 Best Price: $3.96 A Tale of Two Gardens is a collection of poems dealing with Nobel laureate Octavio Paz... |