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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

10 best books like Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Rainer Maria Rilke): The Gift, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, The Enlightened Heart, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Book of My Nights, Migration: New and Selected Poems

The Gift
AuthorHafez
ISBN0140195815
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."

With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
AuthorDaniel Ladinsky
ISBN0142196126
Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz

In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
AuthorKabir
ISBN0807063797

Not all that long ago, in another review, I wrote that I preferred the Rabindranath Tagore translation to this one. I take it back. I was a fool to say so. Revisiting Bly’s translation recently, after more than two decades, I was struck by its clarity, its passion, its vivid and compelling voice.

I...
The Enlightened Heart
AuthorStephen Mitchell
An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to the bestselling Tao Te Ching.

• The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao-tzu • The Bhagavad Gita • Chuang-tzu • The Odes of Solomon • Seng-ts'an • Han-shan •...
The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
AuthorHafez
ISBN0140196234
To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel...
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0933377290
These poems are really beautiful.. here is one for you.

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all...
Astonishments: Selected Poems
AuthorAnna Kamieńska
ISBN1557255288
Anna Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational...
Book of My Nights
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN1929918089
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually...
Migration: New and Selected Poems
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN1556592183
Winner of the National Book AwardA New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case.

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin...
Selected Poems
AuthorGiuseppe Ungaretti
ISBN0374528926
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight...
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1582430063
Berry’s Sabbath poems embrace much that is elemental to human life--beauty, death, peace, and hope.In his preface to the collection, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life...
Red Bird
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068926
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit,...
Every Riven Thing: Poems
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374150362
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets

Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions...
A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke
AuthorAnita Barrows
One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly...
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0826201563
One of my favorite books of poetry. She looks at poetry and people in a deep but whimsical manner. I feel like if I sat with her poems for dinner, we'd be laughing and talking late into the night about literature and philosophy and muskrats and constellations and God. I love how she embraces nature, animals,...
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