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Title: Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel James Ladinsky ISBN: 0-14-219612-6 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (22 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Inspired renderings lighten the load
Comment: Ladinsky's poems give great service. In his modern, witty, tender and uplifting style that has been so well-received in previous volumes of Hafiz renderings, Ladinsky offers us an inspired mixed-company symphony of twelve of God's greatest lovers.

I take no issue with the "voice" that Ladinsky uses to present these holy ones to us. Nor have I ever been offended by the choice that Dali made in his depiction of the Last Supper, of Michelango's decision in determing the exquisite placement of Christ's body in Mary's arms, nor of any artist who is truly inspired to gift to us an interpretation of divine love.

Quoting from the preface of book.Ladinsky states, "Any
liberties I have taken with these poems was an act, I hope, void
of self-interest and done with the sole intention of trying to
help emancipate our wings..........most of what is in this book
would be said to be an avant-garde portrait of these remarkable historic figures. I have used and mixed whichever colors I felt
were the most capable of bringing the reader into the extraordinary experience of these great souls. For their
experience of God foretells our own."

In a poem rendered from St. Teresa of Avila is the verse,
"He led me to a place where only Light existed.
Only in us is God so lost that He asks questions"

Lessons of Light,lightness,and true beauty exist in each offering in this book. You can't help but read it and make some of the attributes of God's best beloveds your own.

Rating: 5
Summary: Another Treasure!
Comment: An intuition of the Divine that continues to give me comfort and open my eyes says that God is a sphere whose circumference is nowhere, but whose center is everywhere. It is an intuition that Ladinsky knows in his bones, as this work so clearly shows. The offerings in Love Poems from God fill that nowhere with true song, and make that everywhere available to readers in a voice that fills the soul's yearning with comfort, awe and delight. These poems return to readers a sensibility of such extraordinary depth that-against all odds in this troubling world-we begin to believe what the great mystics have taught again and again: that the essence of our life is both deeply human and truly Divine. Our lives, then, are a dance set to the very music that whirls throughout these marvelous poems, as, once again, Ladinsky "strikes up the band" of mystical truth and delight.

I keep this book of poems close to me, I hold it like I hold a loving Friend.

Rating: 5
Summary: this is the greatest!
Comment: Daniel Ladinsky has done it again! His translations of the mystics are mystical in themselves, full of radiance and lightheartedness. This book is a keeper, only you'll have to keep buying more because you'll have to give this one away to all your friends. If you want more light and fire in your life, this is the book to get.

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