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 The GiftBest 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 JoyBest Price: $8.46 I've read other translators of Hafiz, Rumi, etc. and while I do not speak the original language,... |  The Illuminated RumiBest 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 LongingBest 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 HafizBest Price: $7.32 The poet Hafiz provides short poems that I read to my wife as we prepare to sleep. There is... |
 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 LoveBest 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 IntoxicationBest 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 PoemsBest Price: $6.99 Rumi is one of my favorite poets but Barks does not do him justice. The translation poorly... |  The Love Poems of RumiBest Price: $5.90 Rumi and Deepak, a union made in heaven:) Perfect little book of Rumi to give as a gift for a... |
 Rumi: Voice of LongingBest Price: $13.60 I'm sorry I purchased this set. The "narrators" voice is very jarring and does not... |  One Song: A New Illuminated RumiBest 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 SpeakBest 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 BeyondBest Price: $14.53 The presentation gives a fairly complete rendition of poetry from the Middle East and Asia.... |
 Open Closed Open: PoemsBest 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 GibranBest 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 LallaBest 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 InterpretationBest Price: $17.56 The spiritual interpretation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Paramahansa... |
 Essential RumiBest 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 HafezBest 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 HafizBest 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 SoulBest Price: $18.14 This is a great book. It is professionally translated and the words flow naturally. The... |  Vis and RaminBest Price: $22.00 Translation isn't easy, especially from a language whose aesthetic is as far from that of... |
 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 1973-2005Best 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 And... |  A Thousand Years of Persian Rubaiyat: An Anthology of Quatrains from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century Along With the Original PersianBest Price: $22.44 In A THOUSAND YEARS OF PERSIAN RUB?'IY?'T, Reza Saberi translates over 1,500 quatrains from more... |
 Unseen Rain: Quatrains of RumiBest Price: $7.50 How beautiful the translations: Night comes so people can sleep like fish in black water.... |  The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of ZeldaBest Price: $18.64 Not only are Zelda's poems "spectacular," but Marcia Falk's opening narrative is... |  Love, Death, and Exile: Poems Translated from ArabicBest 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 RumiBest 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... |
 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-BusiriBest 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 PoemsBest Price: $16.75 This book is absolutely exquisite! I only hope that someday I can read it in its original... |  Hafiz 2009 Wall CalendarBest 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 BaghdadBest Price: $6.22 Although this is very nice work I have given only three stars because it is so short. It... |
 India Divided: Diversity and Democracy under AttackBest Price: $7.38 Physicist-turned-environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Dr. Vandana Shiva... |  The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi PoetryBest Price: $8.21 One of my favorite collections of the Persian Sufi poets, some you may have heard of and others... |  Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamBest Price: $1.94 A little repetitive... No point in worrying... enjoy life at the moment... can't control... |  Rumi: A Spiritual TreasuryBest Price: $8.10 I love this book! I really felt I connected to Rumi's ideas and could understand Sufi thought... |  Victims of a MapBest Price: $11.96 There can be no doubt that Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are among the leading poets... |
 Love Mad: Poems of RumiBest 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 CenturyBest Price: $22.44 This book is the only one of its kind for anyone who wants to learn about Persian poetry in the... |  El profetaBest 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 ReaderBest 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... |
 The Adam of Two EdensBest 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 CalendarBest 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 1952-1995Best Price: $3.96 A Tale of Two Gardens is a collection of poems dealing with Nobel laureate Octavio Paz... |
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