Daniel Ladinsky is editor and translator of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz and several other poetry collections. For
six years he studied with Meher Baba's spiritual community in western India.
Summary
In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky--best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of
the great Sufi poet Hafiz--brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers,
six from the East and six from the West. Once again Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound,
and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis's
loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir's wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu,
Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa's sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Hafiz--these and
other spiritual writers considered to be "conduits of the divine" make up this rich and luminous collection
of "love poems from God."
