BOOK

FindCenter AddIcon
Book Image

The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations

Book Image

By Robert Bly (translator) — 2004

Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two poets, some renowned, others lesser known, are brought together. A wonderful, well translated collection of spiritual poetry especially notable for the inclusion of non-Western poets not well known to Western readers.

Buy on Amazon

FindCenter Video Image

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.

Book
Hafiz
2024
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

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.

Book
Robert Bly (editor)
1999
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

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.

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

EXPLORE TOPIC

Poetry