The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar
English | August 26, 2022 | ISBN: 024139158X, 0241391598 | 400 pages | EPUB | 0,7 MB
English | August 26, 2022 | ISBN: 024139158X, 0241391598 | 400 pages | EPUB | 0,7 MB
Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves as a truly holistic and global survey to a lyric conversation about the divine that has been going on for millenia.
Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David, to Lao Tzu, to the fourteenth century Ethiopian national religious epic, the Kebra Nagast - this anthology presents a number of canonical voices like Blake, Rumi, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways in which humanity has responded to the Divine across the centuries.
These poets' voices commune across the centuries, offering readers a chance to experience for themselves the vast and powerful interconnectedness of these incantations orbiting the most elemental of all subjects - our spirit.