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The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir

10 best books like The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir (Kabir): The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, The Enlightened Heart, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu

The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
AuthorZahirud-din Muhammad Babur
ISBN0375761373
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate...
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
AuthorLi Bai
ISBN0140442723
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and...
I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
AuthorHafez
ISBN0143037811
From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers

To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With...
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0670061948
Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature, and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third mythic anthology. The Coyote Road features a remarkable range of authors, each with his...
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 Selected Poems of Tu Fu
AuthorDu Fu
ISBN0811211002
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
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 Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0060924209
This is one of my favorite all-time poetry anthologies. I picked it up at a discount bookstore in San Francisco, back when I was still a reader searching for the right books. And I swear, back when I was reading mostly fiction and memoir, and my depression was making nonsense of my writing, this book brought...
Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems
AuthorMīrābāī
Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) fought tradition and celebrated a woman's right to an independent life in her ecstatic poems. Her royal family arranged an early marriage for...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
AuthorChikamatsu Monzaemon
ISBN0231111010
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays...
The Selected Poems
AuthorWang Wei
ISBN0811216187
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He developed...
Jin Ping Mei
AuthorLanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
ISBN1596544643
The fullest translation of Jin Ping Mei available in English. This edition was derived from the Egerton translation, minus the Latin, with a few euphemisms thrown in, but is considerably more complete than the Olympia Press version most Westerners are familiar with. Given the fine academic tradition...
Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1888375167
Here is the impermanent
and yet continuously flowing world.

And, complicated. . . don't forget complicated world.

These poems, written by Thich Nhat Hanh, are divided up into two sections in this collection: Historical Dimension (written primarily during the '60s, during...
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)
AuthorLuo Guanzhong
ISBN0804843937
This exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.

The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty,...
Diwan Al Hallaj
AuthorMansur al-Hallaj
ISBN9799373034
Mansur al-Hallaj, died 0919, was born near Shiraz on 0858, and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (An-al Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic...
A Sister to Scheherazade
AuthorAssia Djebar
ISBN0435086227
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals.

Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person. She...
گلشن راز
AuthorMahmud Shabistari
کتاب گلشن راز اثر مشهور سعدالدّین محمودبن امین‌الدّین عبدالکریم‌بن یحیی شبستری، معروف به شیخ محمود شبستری، کتابی است عرفانی که در سال 717 هجری قمری به نظم...
The Secret History of the Mongols
AuthorFrancis Woodman Cleaves
ISBN0674796705
Questo libro è l'epopea delle gesta del temibile Gengis Khan dalla nascita fino al racconto della sua eredità. Ci porta in sella a un cavallo, nelle vastità della steppa eurasiatica, dove un uomo venuto dal nulla, disprezzato e allontanato perché di padre dubbio, mette in piedi uno degli imperi...
The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting
AuthorRumi
In 1244, the brilliant poet Rumi and the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz met and immediately fell into a deep spiritual connection. The Glance taps a major, yet little explored theme in Rumi's poetry-the mystical experience that occurs in the meeting of the eyes of the lover and the beloved, parent...
Ghazals of Ghalib
AuthorMirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
ISBN0942208064
GHALIB WAS AN OUTSTANDING poet in both Persian and Urdu, though his family may have come from Afghanistan. His father and uncle both led mercenary soldiers in the service of one rajah or another in Northern India. Unfortunately for Ghalib, they both died when he was young, and he had to find a way to support...
The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
AuthorPeter Lamborn Wilson
ISBN0930872657
Sufism can be seen to have functioned as a positive and healthy reaction to the overly rational activity of the philosophers and theologians. For the Sufis, the road to spiritual knowledge could never be confined to the process of purely intellectual activity, without the direct, immediate experience...
The Bezels of Wisdom
AuthorIbn Arabi
ISBN0809123312
Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine. Bezel means a setting in which a gem, engraved with one's name, is set to make...
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN0811201872
[From back.]
One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature...
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