To Touch the Sky by Willis Barnstone, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Included are - The Song of Songs - Poems (Sappho) - The Cosmic Fragments (Herakleitos) - Saying Poems (Yeshua the Messiah) - Apocalypse (John of Patmos) - Taoist and Buddhist Poems (Wang Wei) - Allegorical Bestiary (Bishop Theobaldus) - Mystical Poems (Mira Bai) - Mystical Poems (St. John of the Cross) - Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke)The poetry included here spans three thousand years and contains some of the most profound and inspiring writing of world literature: some following the way of fantastic realism while some is mysto-erotic. As Barnstone says: [I]n the instance of our authors, the unsayable has been refashioned into the precision of poetry." " | To Touch the Sky by Willis Barnstone, Paperback | Indigo Chapters