The Gift
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Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union with the divine. In The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky bestows on us the impassioned yet whimsical strains of Hafiz's ecstasy. Never forced or awkward, Ladinsky's Hafiz whispers in your ear and pounds in your chest, naming God in a hundred metaphors. I once asked a bird,
"How is it that you fly in this gravity
Of darkness?"
She responded,
"Love lifts
Me." Like Fitzgerald's version of Khayyam's Rubaiyat, the language of The Gift strikes a contemporary
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Manufacturer: Penguin Compass
Release date: 1 August 1999
ISBN-10 : 0140195815 | ISBN-13: 9780140195811
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Release date: 1 August 1999
ISBN-10 : 0140195815 | ISBN-13: 9780140195811