Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

110 Poets on the Divine

AvKaveh Akbar

E-bok

Engelska, 2022

100 kr

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Beskrivning

'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day. Together they show the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the spiritual, across place and time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-30
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780241391600
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd

Utforska kategorier

Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American poet and scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections Pilgrim Bell, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, and Portrait of the Alcoholic. He teaches writing and Poetry of the Divine at Purdue University, Indiana.

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If poetry is prayer, here are scriptures. Kaveh Akbar's brave, encompassing map of spiritual hunger shows us that longing belongs to all of us, whatever the languages we speak or the geographies we inhabit