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Celebrates one of Islam's greatest poetic voices and renowned spiritual leaders with a collection of 250 mystical healing poems.
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You are God's sweetheart.
One of the great wonders of Hafiz is that one cannot seriously read him without then knowing you are God's sweetheart. And the range of this poet-saint dazzles; he says, "I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through -- listen to this music." And, "Look at the smile on the earth's lips this morning, she laid again with me last night."
One of the great wonders of Hafiz is that one cannot seriously read him without then knowing you are God's sweetheart. And the range of this poet-saint dazzles; he says, "I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through -- listen to this music." And, "Look at the smile on the earth's lips this morning, she laid again with me last night."
There is a wild divine party going on in this book that will lift the corners of your soul's mouth, probably comfort, inspire and free you as few books ever have. To again quote from The Gift, Hafiz says, "Dear ones, let's anoint this earth with dance!"
Indeed.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is already well-known that Ladinsky cannot read Farsi and that he has simply written all the poems himself, publishing them under the name of Hafiz because it sells better than it would if they were published under his own name. When confronted with the fact that none of his poems has an equivalent in Farsi, he claims that the poems were actually "handed him in a dream" by Hafiz. I don't know what the editor of Penguin has been thinking about. If they had published these poems under any other pseudonym, such as Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings or something, it wouldn't have mattered. But as it is now, there can only be two excuses for the name actually appearing on the cover of this book: either the editor has verified the translation with help from Monty Python's "Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" - in which case he might plead incompetence - or he (just like so many reviewers without sufficient knowledge in Farsi or the actual poetry of Hafiz) has simply fallen victim to the fraudulent mr Ladinsky. - Unfortunately, there are many people who desperately want to believe that "this is Hafiz", and they are usually into the kind of New Age beliefs that make them immune to rational argumentation. I am not going to disturb them here by saying what I think about Ladinsky's poetry, but they are certainly disturbing ME by saying what they think about the poetry of "Hafiz". If this is Hafiz, then Justin Bieber is Mozart. In fact, the whole book is a perfect illustration of what our modern world's failures in cultural communications are essentially all about: the global ignorance of people who think (or want others to think) that they are encouraging peace and harmony and human dialogue, by in fact demonstrating their total disinterest in anything than but the exotic and superficial. It's orientalism in its worst form.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The occasional liberties taken with the original text totally detract from its meaning. The American slang is best kept to its own shores - it has no place here. Thank god for the Wilberforce edition!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Gift is an extraordinary book. Speaking both as a poet and as a teacher of writing for more than twenty years, I strongly recommend this surprising, powerful work to anyone with a love of metaphor. And for the reader who is drawn to the spiritual, these poems will reawaken the soul and evoke the honeymoon stage of the Divine Romance.
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hafiz
great delivery service. the book brought tears to my eyes as i was carried upon its words in the desert- here in the mountains the words continue to part the curtains upon the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by mark
A wonderful gift, but is it really from Hafiz?
This book never fails to put a smile on my face and a sweet song in my heart. So why not give it five stars? Read more
Published 14 months ago by Katerina
Nice except (American) slang
Mostly very nice. However, using words such as "damn" and "major-league wonderful" destroys the beauty of Hafiz. Bloody Americans..
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by V.
Beautiful and celebratory poetry
Only knowing Hafiz, through this book I am not in a position to judge whether the book does him justice or whether too much of the tranlator's own poetical and mystical nature has... Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2007 by Aeneas
Laughing and crying...
Oh dear, am I drunk... But not a drop of wine did touch these parched lips! Daniel Ladinsky's transcriptions of Hafiz's poems truly come alive in our tounge. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 1999
to kiss the hand of the man who labored to translate it.
Every seeker lucky enough to stumble across this book will spontaneously want to kneel and kiss the hands of Hafiz and the man who labored to translate it for our modern ears.
Published on 4 Sep 1999
sipping away at gold....
Someone sent me a copy of this book, and I find myself diving into it again and again, often with tears in my eyes(and in my heart). Read more
Published on 19 Aug 1999
Reading "The Gift" will make you glad to be alive.
At last Hafiz has found the modern voice he needed . Dan Ladinsky's renderings have (in my opinion) for the first time, made all the marvel and wonder of this poet known as... Read more
Published on 18 Aug 1999
A true elixir.
There is tangible light in this book, so palatable I don't think I will ever know depression again. I would not have believed words could be so alive and charming, seductive for... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 1999
A true elixir.
There is tangible light in this book, so palatable I don't think I will ever know depression again. I would not have believed words could be so alive and charming, seductive for... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 1999
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