The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

110 Poets on the Divine
Herausgeber: Akbar, Kaveh

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Produktbeschreibung

'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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780241391594
• ISBN-10: 0241391598
• Artikelnr.: 65689045

Autorenporträt

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, and the novel Martyr!. He teaches Creative Writing and Poetry of the Divine at Purdue University, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Enheduanna
from ‘Hymn to Inanna’       Unknown
‘Death of Enkidu’
from The Epic of Gilgamesh                        Unknown
from The Book of the Dead           Unknown
Song of Songs
chapters 1 and 2         King David
Psalm 23                    Homer
from The Odyssey                Sappho
Fragments 22 and 118               Patacara
‘When they plow their fields’           Lao Tzu
‘Easy by Nature’
from Tao Te Ching      Chandaka
Two Cosmologies                Vyasa
from the Bhagavad Gita              Lucretius
from The Nature of Things          Virgil
from The Aeneid                  Shenoute
‘Homily’                     Sengcan
‘The Mind of Absolute Trust’           From the Quran                       Kakinomoto Hitomaro
‘In praise of Empress Jitō’     Li Po
‘Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon’         Rabi’a al-Basri
‘O my lord’              Ono No Komachi
‘This inn’                Hanshan
‘Hanshan’s Poem’                Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh
‘Names of the Lion’                    Unknown
Anglo-Saxon charm               Izumi Shikibu
‘Things I Want Decided’           Li Qingzhao
‘Late Spring’                  Hildegard of Bingen
‘Song to the Creator’         Mahadeviyakka
‘I do not call it his sign’           Attar of Nishapur
‘Parable of the Dead Dervishes in the Desert’                       St Francis of Assisi
‘Canticle of the Sun’          Wumen Huikai
from The Gateless Gate          Rūmī
‘Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven’        Mechthild of Magdeburg
‘Of all that God has shown me’                         Saadi Shirazi
‘The Grass Cried Out’            Thomas Aquinas
‘Lost
All in Wonder’           Moses de León
from The Sepher Zohar         Dante Alighieri
from Inferno
Canto III         from the Sundiata                    Hafez
Ghazal 17                      Yaqui people
‘Deer Song’                Nezahualcoyotl
‘The Painted Book’           Kabir
‘Brother
I’ve seen some’           Mirabai
‘O friend
understand’              Yoruba people
from A Recitation of Ifa         Teresa of Ávila
‘Laughter Came from Every Brick’ Gaspara Stampa
‘Deeply repentant of my sinful ways’ St John of the Cross
‘O Love’s living flame’ Mayan people
from the Popol Vuh Christopher Marlowe
from Faustus William Shakespeare
Sonnet 146 John Donne
‘Batter my heart
three-person’d God’ Nahuatl people
‘The Midwife Addresses the Woman’ George Herbert
‘Easter Wings’ Walatta Petros/Gälawdewos
from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros John Milton
from Paradise Lost
Book 4 Bashō
‘Death Song’ and ‘In Kyoto’ Juana Inés de la Cruz
‘Suspend
singer swan
the sweet strain’ Yosa Buson
‘A solitude’ Olaudah Equiano
‘Miscellaneous Verses’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Wanderer’s Nightsong II’ Phillis Wheatley
‘On Virtue’ William Blake
‘Auguries of Innocence’ Kobayashi Issa
‘All the time I pray to Buddha’ John Clare
‘I Am!’ John Keats
‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Mirza Ghalib
‘For the Raindrop’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
‘Grief’ Frederick Douglass
‘A Parody’ Emily Dickinson
‘I prayed
at first
a little Girl’      Uvavnuk
‘The Great Sea’                 Gerard Manley Hopkins
‘God’s Grandeur’        Rabindranath Tagore
‘The Temple of Gold’        Constantine Cavafy
‘Body
Remember’          W. B. Yeats
‘The Second Coming’             Rainer Maria Rilke
‘The Second Duino Elegy’       Muhammad Iqbal
‘These are the days of lightning’    Yosano Akiko
‘To punish’                 Sarojini Naidu
‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’       Delmira Agustini
‘Inextinguishables’           Gabriela Mistral
‘The Return’               Anna Akhmatova
from ‘Requiem’             Osip Mandelstam
‘O Lord
help me to live through this night’                    Edith Södergran
‘A Life’                  Marina Tsvetaeva
from Poems to Czechia       María Sabina
from ‘The Midnight Velada’         Xu Zhimo
‘Second Farewell to Cambridge’        Federico García Lorca
‘Farewell’             Nâzim Hikmet
‘Things I Didn’t Know I Loved’       Léopold Sédar Senghor
‘Totem’              Faiz Ahmed Faiz
‘Before You Came’           Czesław Miłosz
‘Dedication’               Edmond Jabès
‘At the Threshold of the Book’      Aimé Césaire
from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land                    Octavio Paz
‘Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy’                    Oodgeroo Noonuccal
‘God’s One Mistake’        Paul Celan
‘There was Earth in Them’           Paul Laraque
‘Rainbow’                  Nazik Al-Malaika
‘Love Song for Words’         Wisława Szymborska
‘Astonishment’           Zbigniew Herbert
‘The Envoy of Mr Cogito’       Yehuda Amichai
‘A Man in His Life’           Ingeborg Bachmann
‘Every Day’             Kim Nam-Jo
‘Foreign Flags’               Kamau Brathwaite
‘Bread’                 Adonis
‘The New Noah’                  Christopher Okigbo
‘Come Thunder’           Ingrid Jonker
‘There Is Just One Forever’         Jean Valentine
‘The River at Wolf’             Kofi Awoonor
‘At the Gates’             Adélia Prado
‘Dysrhythmia’                Lucille Clifton
‘my dream about God’           Vénus Khoury-Ghata
from She Says          Mahmoud Darwish
‘I Didn’t Apologize to the Well’    M. NourbeSe Philip
from Zong!            Inrasara
from Allegory of the Land           Sources                           Acknowledgements                     Index of First Lines                     Index of Titles