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To touch the sky : poems of mystical, spiritual & metaphysical light / translations by Willis Barnstone.
LIBRA PN6101 .T63 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Translations into English.
- Poetry.
- Spiritual life--Poetry.
- Spiritual life.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 224 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1999.
- Summary:
- "To Touch The Sky" contains Willis Barstone's translations of some of the most inspiring writing of world literature: ten mystical and spiritual poets spanning three thousand years. It includes poems from the Song of Songs, Sappho, Herakleitos, Wang Wei, Mirabai, Rilke, and more.
- Contents:
- The Biblical Song of Songs
- The Aphrodite poems of Sappho
- The cosmic fragments of Herakleitos
- The saying poems of Yeshua the Messiah
- The Apocalyse of John of Patmos
- The Daoist-Buddhist poems of Wang Wei
- The bestiary of Bishop Theobaldus
- The mystical poems of Mirabai
- The mystical poems of St. John of the Cross
- The Sonnets to Orpheus of Rainer Maria Rilke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 081121396X
- 9780811213967
- OCLC:
- 39849549
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