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A Lyrical Bridge Between Past, Present and Future | David Whyte

By David Whyte — 2017

David Whyte meditates on the frontiers of the past, present and future, sharing two poems inspired by his niece’s hike along El Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

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The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems

This collection of poems introduces a general readership to Yunus Emre (1240–1321), called the “greatest folk poet in Islam.

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Yunus Emre, Kabir Helminski, Refik Algan
1999
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Where Many Rivers Meet

This is David Whyte’s second book of poetry, now in its 6th printing.

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David Whyte
1990
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Turn Me to Gold: 108 Poems of Kabir

After authoring more than 30 books, Andrew Harvey, Rumi scholar, mystic, and founder of Sacred Activism, is releasing what may be his consummate work, Turn Me to Gold: 108 Poems of Kabir, embellished with extraordinary photographs of India by Brett Hurd.

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Kabir, Andrew Harvey (translator), Brett Hurd (photography)
2018
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Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals

In Bestiary, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and many cultures.

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Stephen Mitchell
1996
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Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

What if women had been the storytellers? Cassandra Speaks is a synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. All people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.

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Elizabeth Lesser
2020
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Jumping Out of Bed

This is a collection of Taoist-inspired poems by Robert Bly exploring the joys of solitude, the interdependence of all life, and the delights of being rather than striving. His poems are interwoven with woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming, creating an attractive interplay of verbal and visual images.

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Robert Bly
1995
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News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

In News of the Universe, Robert Bly has assembled a uniquely cross-cultural anthology of poems that, taken together, illuminate his vision of human history over the past several centuries.

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Robert Bly (editor)
2015
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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne...

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Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade
1993
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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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