The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door

The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9780061971099
ISBN-13 : 006197109X
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Book Synopsis The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door by : Robert Bly

Download or read book The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door written by Robert Bly and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience. There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that the Persians have for Hafez. Children learn to sing Hafez poems in the third grade, and almost every family has a copy of the collected Hafez on the dining room table. Robert Bly and the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn have worked for 15 years on this book of Hafez, the first that carries into English his nimbleness, his outrageous humor, his defenses of the private life in the face of the fundamentalists, and the joy of his love poems. He writes in the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry. This is Rumi’s wild younger brother, now brought into an English that makes his genius visible.


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