To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light
Willis Barnstone
(Translator)
Description
Included are
- The Song of Songs
- Poems (Sappho)
- The Cosmic Fragments (Herakleitos)
- Saying Poems (Yeshua the Messiah)
- Apocalypse (John of Patmos)
- Taoist and Buddhist Poems (Wang Wei)
- Allegorical Bestiary (Bishop Theobaldus)
- Mystical Poems (Mira Bai)
- Mystical Poems (St. John of the Cross)
- Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The poetry included here spans three thousand years and contains some of the most profound and inspiring writing of world literature: some following the way of fantastic realism while some is mysto-erotic. As Barnstone says: "[I]n the instance of our authors, the unsayable has been refashioned into the precision of poetry."
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
February 17, 1999
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.17 X 7.88 X 0.56 inches | 0.54 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811213967
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About the Author
Willis Barnstone, professor, poet, and scholar, is the author of eighty volumes, including The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible, The Poems of Jesus Christ, The Poetics of Translation, and Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Oakland, California, and Paris.
