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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.5511
EAN: 9780140196238
ISBN: 0140196234
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 88
Publication Date: 2003-01-28
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Product Release Date: 2003-01-28
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to create modern, inspired translations of the world's most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky's translations, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the centuries singing his message of love.

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Review Summary: The Playful Poems of Hafiz
Review: The poet Hafiz provides short poems that I read to my wife as we prepare to sleep. There is tenderness (The Woman I Love), joy (We Keep Each Other Happy), and humor (The Vegetables). Some are thought-provoking (Some Angels Grumble). I find that I am still seeking the meaning in others.

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Review Summary: The Subject Tonight Is Love by Hafiz
Review: This small wonderful book stirs the contemplative heart. The poems are not more than a page long. I use them for my evening prayer. Each one is a golden nugget of inspiration. I highly recommend this book...five stars.

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Review Summary: Divine Hafiz
Review: A lifelong fan (dare I say devoted?) to Hafiz and his many works, this book is a must have. Nothing compares to reading Hafiz in Persian, but this book comes very, very close. Hafiz is enlightening, spiritual, refreshing, and above all, very full of wisdom. His works are truly magical, especially considering after all these years, people are still compelled to his work and mystified by his writings. Classic.

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Review Summary: Luminous soul food!
Review: Hafiz is, together with Rumi, simply one of the greatest poets to have walked on this earth (in my opinion), and Ladinsky's translations bring them to English speakers in a way that we can easliy and deliciously assimilate. This book of enlightening poems will make your soul glow and shiver with delight, if only you let it...

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Review Summary: Skip Ladinsky - read Hafiz
Review: Once again, Ladinsky claims to be presenting English speaking readers with the work of the great Persian poet Hafiz, and once again, he hasn't felt the need to actually learn Persian or actually base these works on any previous translation of any poem by Hafiz. These are the poems that Ladinsky imagines Hafiz might have written had he been a twentieth century baby boomer Californian disciple of Meher Baba, instead of a 14th century Persian Sufi Muslim. Ladinsky believes (or claims to believe) that Hafiz told him these poems. If so, the afterlife hasn't done anything for the great poet's literary talent.

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