The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to create modern, inspired translations of the world's most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky's translations, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the...
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To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to create modern, inspired translations of the world's most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky's translations, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the centuries singing his message of love.
IntroductionixWhere Dolphins Dance1The Woman I Love2Forgiveness Is the Cash3All the Hemispheres4The Vegetables5At This Party6Why All This Talk?7In a Handful of God8Because of Our Wisdom9We Keep Each Other Happy10Castrating an Ego11This Place Where You Are Right Now12In a Tree House13We Are a Couple of Barroom Sailors14No Other Kind of Light15Not with Wings16Venus Just Asked Me18The Size of the Love Bruise19The Theater of Freedom20You Say, I Say22Where Do You Think You Will Be?23The Day Sky24Among Strong Men25Beautiful Hands26Old Sweet Beggar27Out of the Mouths of a Thousand Birds28I Knew We Would Be Friends30Build a House for Men31That Sounds Wonderful32A Singing Cleaning Woman33Your Shape of Laughter34Something I Have Learned35And a Big Herd of Sweet Goats36Narrow the Difference37The Small Table of Time and Space38The Happy Virus40The Wonderful Lawlessness41They Call to You to Sing42Your Medicine44It Happens All the Time in Heaven45The Guardians of His Beauty46The Subject Tonight Is Love47I Saw You Dancing48Never Say It Is Not God49Absolutely Clear50Ten Thousand Idiots51To Anything That Moved52Carrying God53I Cherish Your Ears54Deepening the Wonder55Will Beat You Up56I Follow Barefoot57Join Me in the Pure Atmosphere58Some Angels Grumble60Playing in the Brilliance61Like the Ganges62And Acting So Cool64A Potted Plant65Just Sit There66A Suspended Blue Ocean67
