About this title: The book offer entrance into a world and beauty and truth. Its method is two-fold. First it presents five important lectures on Persian poetry given by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, who brought Sufis to the West. Then it offers fresh translations by the poet Coleman Barks of some of the poetry Inayat Khan discusses, designed to provide readers with ready access to at least a sample of this wondrous literature, still not easy to find in English. Thus the book presents a brief, but reasonably comprehensive, introduction to one of the great literatures of the world, until recently ignored in the ...
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Omega Publications, New London CT
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Good- Trade Paperback. Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Minor foxing of the edges and the inside of the covers and their facing pages. The very tips of the upper fore corners of a few pages are bumped, else contents are clean and unmarked.; The colorfully illustrated blue PAPER COVER is about the weight of posterboard. POETRY. "This book, THE HAND OF POETRY, offers entrance into a world of beauty and truth. Its method is two-fold. First it presents five important lectures on ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Omega Pr, New Lebanon, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780930872472ISBN:0930872479
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. MINOR EDGE AND CORNER WEAR, INSCRIPTION IN INK ON THE FIRST PAGE, A VERY CRISP AND CLEAN USED FIRST EDITION! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Omega Publications (NY)
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780930872472ISBN:0930872479
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Omega Pubns
Date Published: 1993-05-01
ISBN-13:9780930872472ISBN:0930872479
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780930872472. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Omega Publications (NY)
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780930872472ISBN:0930872479
Description: Good. Books have varying amounts of wear and highlighting. Usually ships within 24 hours in quality packaging. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Binding: paperback
Publisher: Omega Publications in New Lebanon
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780930872472ISBN:0930872479
Description: Very Good, former library, cover and text are clean and bright, sound binding. Very good. Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz by Coleman Barks. Lectures on Persian Poetry by Inayat Khan. Poetry. read more
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