The Gift by Hafiz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Gift
Book Review: A powerful book for anyone with a love of metaphor
Summary: 5 Stars
The Gift is an extraordinary book. Speaking both as a poet and as a teacher of writing for more than twenty years, I strongly recommend this surprising, powerful work to anyone with a love of metaphor. And for the reader who is drawn to the spiritual, these poems will reawaken the soul and evoke the honeymoon stage of the Divine Romance.Book Review: A translation that keeps the feeling intact
Summary: 5 Stars
Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310-1337 in Shiraz , Persia (Iran). His lyrical poems, ghazals, are noted for their beauty and bring to fruition the love, mystical, and early Sufi themes that had long pervaded Persian poetry.
This translation brings to English the feeling of Hafiz words and their deep meaning.
Hafiz poems are still among the most popular Persian poems. They are frequently used in traditional Iranian music like works of Mohammad Reza Shajarian. His poetry is also one of the sources of inspiration of Iran's leading painter Mahmoud Farshchian.
Read it again and again.
Book Review: A true elixir.
Summary: 5 Stars
There is tangible light in this book, so palatable I don't think I will ever know depression again. I would not have believed words could be so alive and charming, seductive for my welfare. I can't imagine any trooper not putting this book at the top of their Y2K survival list. And come the new millennium tattooing the word Hafiz everywhere.I am thinking about renting one of those old airplanes that sends news to us from the sky with a banner that reads: No one, I mean no one, makes love like Hafiz.
Should I be more serious, okay. There is a rare medicine here that comes from a different reality; one more true than any world where so much suffering exists. If any part of you is aching - if your soul is thirsty - you got to read this wonderful stuff.
Book Review: A true elixir.
Summary: 5 Stars
There is tangible light in this book, so palatable I don't think I will ever know depression again. I would not have believed words could be so alive and charming, seductive for my welfare. I can't imagine any trooper not putting this book at the top of their Y2K survival list. And come the new millennium tattooing the word Hafiz everywhere.I am thinking about renting one of those old airplanes that sends news to us from the sky with a banner that reads: No one, I mean no one, makes love like Hafiz.
Should I be more serious, okay. There is a rare medicine here that comes from a different reality; one more true than any world where so much suffering exists. If any part of you is aching - if your soul is thirsty - you got to read this wonderful stuff.
Book Review: A unique portrait
Summary: 5 Stars
Like millions of Persians I sat on my grandfather's knee and listened to Rumi and Hafez. I was and am struck by what I have read in The Gift. Are these Hafez's poems or are they just Ladinsky's? The essence of Hafez is truth, beauty, humor, endearment to the Self, and light, above all - a freeing whirling light. With that in mind, after some soul searching, I must admit this book is wonderful, a unique portrait of Hafez. I have never seen this great Persian Master more glorious in the English language.