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The Way Under the Way

By Mark Nepo
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This poem by Mark Nepo celebrates the abundance of imperfection.

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The Illuminated Hafiz: Love Poems for the Journey to Light

Vivid translations by Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Omid Safi, Meher Baba, and others combine with Michael and Saliha Green’s stunning illustrations to bring the immortal poetry of the great Persian master Hafiz to life “There is this matter of the light in my eyes.

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Hafiz
2025
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The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures

Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature.

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Robert Bly (editor)
1999
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Hafiz of Shiraz—Thirty Poems: an Introduction to the Sufi Master

Hafiz was born at Shiraz, in Persia, some time after 1320, and died there in 1389. He is, then, an almost exact contemporary of Chaucer. His standing in Persian literature ranks him with Shakespeare and Goethe. A Sufi, Hafiz lived in troubled times.

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Hafez, Peter Avery (translator), John Heath-Stubbs (translator)
2003
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