What We Know Is Not Enough (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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The erotic Song of Songs. St John of the Cross swooning in his beloved's arms. Ibn 'Arabi pursuing a doe-eyed maiden across scorching deserts. Kabir's wild search for Ram. Love throbs at the heart of this collection. Mad love. Enchanted love. Love so intense lovers forget who they are. Keith Hill's luminous poetry offers wisdom from three thousand years of spirituality. New translations reveal the Bhagavad Gita's poetic force, psalms blaze with heartrending intensity. The central narrative is a remarkable tale of Cabeza de Vaca's adventures after being shipwrecked in the New World. The collection is bookended by satirical jabs at the fault lines in today's world.'A tour de force. The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca is a truly original and remarkable recasting in verse of the ill-fated Narváez expedition to Central America. Once taken up, impossible to put down.' - Alistair Paterson, POET AND CRITIC'Keith Hill's artful and beautiful renditions will bring Ibn 'Arabi's neglected masterpiece to a new readership.' - Nile Green, author of Sufism: A Global History'In a time that seems spiritually dry for so many, this book of psalms is water in the desert. They challenge, terrify, comfort, and call us to a deep humanity.' - Allan Jones, Dean Emeritus, Grace Cathedral, SAN FRANCISCO'A satirist in the tradition of Juvenal and Swift. Okay, Out of the way world here comes humanity! is raucous and ranty in places, but this collection is a great holiday from more polite and cryptic poetry.' - Nicolas Reid, NEW ZEALAND Listener