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To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual Metaphysical Light
To Touch the Sky Poems of Mystical Spiritual Metaphysical Light Author:Willis Barnstone TO TOUCH THE SKY contains Willis Barstone's translations of some of the most inspiring writing of world literature: ten mystical and spiritual poets spanning three thousand years. It includes poems from The Song of Songs, Sappho, Herakleitos, Wang Wei, Mirabai, Rilke, and more. As Barnstone writes in his introduction, "There is a moment of visio... more »n, otherness, apparent timelessness, erotic sublimity, where the ordinary becomes extaordinary, for which there is no easy verbal equivalent except in the metaphors of poetry." Carolyn Kizer writes, "Willis Barnstone has a problem: he's too good. Everything he writes... is a breathtaking achievement."
"I could not hope to touch the sky/with my two arms." [Sappho] To Touch the Sky contains Willis Barstone's translations of some of the most inspiring writing of world literature: ten mystical and spiritual poets spanning three thousand years. It includes poems from The Song of Songs, Sappho, Herakleitos, Wang Wei, Mirabai, Rilke, and more. As Barnstone writes in his introduction, "There is a moment of vision, otherness, apparent timelessness, erotic sublimity, where the ordinary becomes extaordinary, for which there is no easy verbal equivalent except in the metaphors of poetry."« less