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| Title: | Hand of Poetry
: Five Mystic Poets of Persia |
| Author: | Coleman Barks, Translator |
| ISBN: | 0930872479 : 9780930872472 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 188 |
| Weight: | .273 Kg. |
| Published: | Four Corners (Omega Publications) - January 1993 |
| List Price: | 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Poetry texts & anthologies: Islam |
The book offer entrance into a world and beauty and truth. Its method is two-fold. First it presents five important lectures on Persian poetry given by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, who brought Sufis to the West. Then it offers fresh translations by the poet Coleman Barks of some of the poetry Inayat Khan discusses, designed to provide readers with ready access to at least a sample of this wondrous literature, still not easy to find in English. Thus the book presents a brief, but reasonably comprehensive, introduction to one of the great literatures of the world, until recently ignored in the West.
