Included are The Song of Songs Poems (Sappho) The Cosmic Fragments (Herakleitos) Saying Poems (Yeshua the Messiah) Apocalypse (John of Patmos) Taoist and Buddhist Poems (Wang Wei) Allegorical Bestiary (Bishop Theobaldus) Mystical Poems (Mira Bai) Mystical Poems (St. John of the Cross) Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke) The poetry included here spans three thousand years and contains some of the most profound and inspiring writing of world literature: some following the way of fantastic realism while some is mysto-erotic. As Barnstone says: "[I]n the instance of our authors, the unsayable has been refashioned into the precision of poetry."
- ISBN:
- 9780811213967
- 9780811213967
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Category:
- Poetry by individual poets
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
11-03-1999
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions (mm):
- 203x135x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.25kg
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