EAN: 9780241391587

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPIRITUAL VERSE GEBUNDEN

'An amazing compilation: this book is more than a typical poetry anthology ... Offers a balm  a
consolation  a tune  in our desolate world.' - Ilya Kaminsky'An amazing collection of spiritual
verse from many cultures and periods ... There cannot be any other anthology that ranges so
widely  and anyone concerned with either poetry or spirituality will want to own a copy.' -
John BartonAn inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine  featuring poets
from across the world  from antiquity to the presentPoets 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.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  from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - 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.These 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.

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