{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-spiritual-verse-isbn-9780241391594","title":"The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet and author of \u003ci\u003eMartyr!\u003c\/i\u003e, Kaveh Akbar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoets 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 is a holistic and global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning 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, from the \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e to the Malian \u003ci\u003eEpic of Sundiata\u003c\/i\u003e - this selection presents a number of canonical voices like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices going up to the present day, that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the divine across place and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poets' voices commune between millenia, 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.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnheduanna, from ‘Hymn to Inanna’      \u003cbr\u003e Unknown, ‘Death of Enkidu’, from \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of Gilgamesh                        \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unknown, from \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Dead           \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unknown, Song of Songs, chapters 1 and 2        \u003cbr\u003e King David, Psalm 23                   \u003cbr\u003e Homer, from \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey                \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sappho, Fragments 22 and 118              \u003cbr\u003e Patacara, ‘When they plow their fields’          \u003cbr\u003e Lao Tzu, ‘Easy by Nature’, from \u003ci\u003eTao Te Ching      \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chandaka, Two Cosmologies               \u003cbr\u003e Vyasa, from the \u003ci\u003eBhagavad Gita              \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lucretius, from \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things          \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Virgil, from \u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid                  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shenoute, ‘Homily’                    \u003cbr\u003e Sengcan, ‘The Mind of Absolute Trust’          \u003cbr\u003e From the Quran                      \u003cbr\u003e Kakinomoto Hitomaro, ‘In praise of Empress Jitō’    \u003cbr\u003e Li Po, ‘Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon’        \u003cbr\u003e Rabi’a al-Basri, ‘O my lord’             \u003cbr\u003e Ono No Komachi, ‘This inn’               \u003cbr\u003e Hanshan, ‘Hanshan’s Poem’               \u003cbr\u003e Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, ‘Names of the Lion’                   \u003cbr\u003e Unknown, Anglo-Saxon charm              \u003cbr\u003e Izumi Shikibu, ‘Things I Want Decided’          \u003cbr\u003e Li Qingzhao, ‘Late Spring’                 \u003cbr\u003e Hildegard of Bingen, ‘Song to the Creator’        \u003cbr\u003e Mahadeviyakka, ‘I do not call it his sign’          \u003cbr\u003e Attar of Nishapur, ‘Parable of the Dead Dervishes in the Desert’                      \u003cbr\u003e St Francis of Assisi, ‘Canticle of the Sun’         \u003cbr\u003e Wumen Huikai, from \u003ci\u003eThe Gateless Gate          \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rūmī, ‘Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven’       \u003cbr\u003e Mechthild of Magdeburg, ‘Of all that God has shown me’                        \u003cbr\u003e Saadi Shirazi, ‘The Grass Cried Out’           \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Aquinas, ‘Lost, All in Wonder’          \u003cbr\u003e Moses de León, from \u003ci\u003eThe Sepher Zohar         \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dante Alighieri, from \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Canto III        \u003cbr\u003e from the \u003ci\u003eSundiata                    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hafez, Ghazal 17                     \u003cbr\u003e Yaqui people, ‘Deer Song’               \u003cbr\u003e Nezahualcoyotl, ‘The Painted Book’          \u003cbr\u003e Kabir, ‘Brother, I’ve seen some’          \u003cbr\u003e Mirabai, ‘O friend, understand’             \u003cbr\u003e Yoruba people, from \u003ci\u003eA Recitation of Ifa         \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Teresa of Ávila, ‘Laughter Came from Every Brick’\u003cbr\u003e Gaspara Stampa, ‘Deeply   repentant of my sinful ways’\u003cbr\u003e St John of the Cross, ‘O Love’s living flame’\u003cbr\u003e Mayan people, from the \u003ci\u003ePopol Vuh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Marlowe, from \u003ci\u003eFaustus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146\u003cbr\u003e John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three-person’d God’\u003cbr\u003e Nahuatl people, ‘The Midwife Addresses the Woman’\u003cbr\u003e George Herbert, ‘Easter Wings’\u003cbr\u003e Walatta Petros\/Gälawdewos, from \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Struggles of Our Mother   Walatta Petros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Milton, from \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Book 4\u003cbr\u003e Bashō, ‘Death Song’ and ‘In Kyoto’\u003cbr\u003e Juana Inés   de la Cruz,   ‘Suspend, singer swan, the sweet strain’\u003cbr\u003e Yosa Buson, ‘A solitude’\u003cbr\u003e Olaudah Equiano, ‘Miscellaneous Verses’\u003cbr\u003e Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Wanderer’s Nightsong II’\u003cbr\u003e Phillis Wheatley, ‘On Virtue’\u003cbr\u003e William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’\u003cbr\u003e Kobayashi Issa, ‘All the time I pray to Buddha’\u003cbr\u003e John Clare, ‘I Am!’\u003cbr\u003e John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’\u003cbr\u003e Mirza Ghalib, ‘For the Raindrop’\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Grief’\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Douglass, ‘A Parody’\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Emily Dickinson, ‘I prayed, at first, a little Girl’     \u003cbr\u003e Uvavnuk, ‘The Great Sea’                \u003cbr\u003e Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘God’s Grandeur’       \u003cbr\u003e Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The Temple of Gold’       \u003cbr\u003e Constantine Cavafy, ‘Body, Remember’         \u003cbr\u003e W. B. Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’            \u003cbr\u003e Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘The Second Duino Elegy’      \u003cbr\u003e Muhammad Iqbal, ‘These are the days of lightning’   \u003cbr\u003e Yosano Akiko, ‘To punish’                \u003cbr\u003e Sarojini Naidu, ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’      \u003cbr\u003e Delmira Agustini, ‘Inextinguishables’          \u003cbr\u003e Gabriela Mistral, ‘The Return’              \u003cbr\u003e Anna Akhmatova, from ‘Requiem’            \u003cbr\u003e Osip Mandelstam, ‘O Lord, help me to live through this night’                   \u003cbr\u003e Edith Södergran, ‘A Life’                 \u003cbr\u003e Marina Tsvetaeva, from \u003ci\u003ePoems to Czechia       \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e María Sabina, from ‘The Midnight Velada’        \u003cbr\u003e Xu Zhimo, ‘Second Farewell to Cambridge’       \u003cbr\u003e Federico García Lorca, ‘Farewell’            \u003cbr\u003e Nâzim Hikmet, ‘Things I Didn’t Know I Loved’      \u003cbr\u003e Léopold Sédar Senghor, ‘Totem’             \u003cbr\u003e Faiz Ahmed Faiz, ‘Before You Came’          \u003cbr\u003e Czesław Miłosz, ‘Dedication’              \u003cbr\u003e Edmond Jabès, ‘At the Threshold of the Book’     \u003cbr\u003e Aimé Césaire, from \u003ci\u003eNotebook of a Return to the Native Land                    \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Octavio Paz, ‘Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy’                   \u003cbr\u003e Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘God’s One Mistake’       \u003cbr\u003e Paul Celan, ‘There was Earth in Them’          \u003cbr\u003e Paul Laraque, ‘Rainbow’                 \u003cbr\u003e Nazik Al-Malaika, ‘Love Song for Words’        \u003cbr\u003e Wisława Szymborska, ‘Astonishment’          \u003cbr\u003e Zbigniew Herbert, ‘The Envoy of Mr Cogito’      \u003cbr\u003e Yehuda Amichai, ‘A Man in His Life’          \u003cbr\u003e Ingeborg Bachmann, ‘Every Day’            \u003cbr\u003e Kim Nam-Jo, ‘Foreign Flags’              \u003cbr\u003e Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Bread’                \u003cbr\u003e Adonis, ‘The New Noah’                 \u003cbr\u003e Christopher Okigbo, ‘Come Thunder’          \u003cbr\u003e Ingrid Jonker, ‘There Is Just One Forever’        \u003cbr\u003e Jean Valentine, ‘The River at Wolf’            \u003cbr\u003e Kofi Awoonor, ‘At the Gates’            \u003cbr\u003e Adélia Prado, ‘Dysrhythmia’               \u003cbr\u003e Lucille Clifton, ‘my dream about God’          \u003cbr\u003e Vénus Khoury-Ghata, from \u003ci\u003eShe Says          \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mahmoud Darwish, ‘I Didn’t Apologize to the Well’   \u003cbr\u003e M. NourbeSe Philip, from \u003ci\u003eZong!            \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Inrasara, from \u003ci\u003eAllegory of the Land           \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSources                           \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements                     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of First Lines                     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of Titles                        \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaveh Akbar\u003c\/b\u003e is an Iranian American poet and scholar. He is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003ePilgrim Bell, Calling a Wolf a Wolf \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Alcoholic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eMartyr!.\u003c\/i\u003e He teaches Creative Writing and Poetry of the Divine at Purdue University, Indiana.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299848114405,"sku":"NP9780241391594","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241391594.jpg?v=1767740908","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-spiritual-verse-isbn-9780241391594","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}