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TO TOUCH THE SKY: POEMS OF MYSTICAL,
SPIRITUAL & METAPHYSICAL LIGHT |
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To
Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical,
Spiritual & Metaphysical Light.
Translations by Willis Barnstone.
Published by New Directions in 1991.
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To Touch the Sky compiles Willis
Barnstone's translations of nine
mystical and spiritual poets' most
important work: The Song of Songs,
Cosmic Fragments of Herakleitos, Saying
Poems of Yeshua the Messiah, Apocalypse
by John of Patmos, Taoist and Buddhist
Poems of Wang Wei, Allegorical Bestiary
by Bishop Theobaldus, Mystical Poems of
Mira Bai, Mystical Poems of St. John of
the Cross, Metaphysical Sonnets to
Orpheus of Rainer Maria Rilke. The
poetry included here spans three
thousand years and contains some of the
most profound and inspiring writing of
world literature: some following the way
of fantastic realism while some is mysto-erotic.
As Barnstone says: "[I]n the instance of
our authors, the unsayable has been
refashioned into the precision of
poetry."
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