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A YEAR WITH HAFIZ
HAFIZ , whose given name was Shams-ud-din Muhammad (c. 13201389), is the most beloved poet of Persians. He was born and lived in Shiraz, a beautiful garden city, where he became a famous spiritual teacher. His Divan (collected poems) is a classic in the literature of Sufism and mystical verse. The work of Hafiz became known to the West largely through the passion of Goethe. His enthusiasm deeply affected Ralph Waldo Emerson, who then translated Hafiz in the nineteenth century. Emerson said, Hafiz is a poet for poets, and Goethe remarked, Hafiz has no peer. Hafizs poems were also admired by such diverse notables as Nietzsche and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose wonderful character Sherlock Holmes quotes Hafiz; Garca Lorca praised him; the famous composer Johannes Brahms was so touched by his verse he put several lines into compositions; and even Queen Victoria was said to have consulted the works of Hafiz in times of need. The range of Hafizs verse is indeed stunning. He says, I am a hole in a flute that the Christs breath moves throughlisten to this music. In another poem Hafiz playfully sings, Look at the smile on the earths lips this morning, she lay again with me last night.
DANIEL LADINSKY is one of the most successful living writers in the world working with poetry. His work has reached millions of people. Daniel lived in India for six years, where he worked in a rural clinic free to the poor, and was a student of the essence and unity of all faiths. A teacher there ingrained the wonder of Hafiz into his soul when he said, With great wit and tenderness the words of Hafiz speak for God. Ladinskys other books include The Gift, Love Poems from God, The Subject Tonight Is Love, I Heard God Laughing, and an upcoming Rumi book, The Purity of Desire. Once, when Daniel was asked a reason for his accomplishments and if he had any advice for other artists, Daniel quoted a line from an old Broadway musical that went, You gotta have heart, miles and miles and miles of heart!
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
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Copyright Daniel Ladinsky, 2010
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Some of the selections in this book first appeared in Daniel Ladinskys The Gift: Poems of Hafiz; I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, Renderings of Hafiz; Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West; and The Subject Tonight is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz (Penguin Books).
Copyright Daniel Ladinsky, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2006.
The Life and Work of Hafiz by Henry S. Mindlin from I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky (Sufism Reoriented, 1996). By permission of Sufism Reoriented.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hafiz, 14th cent.
[Poems. English. Selections.]
A year with Hafiz: daily contemplations / Daniel Ladinsky.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-1-101-55926-0
1. Hafiz, 14th cent.Translations into English. 2. Sufipoetry, PersianTranslations into English. I. Ladinsky, Daniel James. II. Title.
PK6465.Z31L344 2010
891'.5511dc22
2009052982
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It rises,
a glorious sun,
if one can sit quiet long enough.
Seeing it, one feels, I now have everything,
everything I could
ever want.
There
are moments
in moist love when heaven
is jealous of what
we on earth can do.
HAFIZ
God has treasuries beneath the Throne,
the keys to which are the tongues of poets.
HADITH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
I thank my teacher, Eruch Jessawala, with whom I spent a lot of time over a twenty-year period. I think he knew Hafiz intrinsically, more truly and deeply than anyone I have ever met. Not one poem of mine would ever have been published without his extraordinary sanction and a profound, rare insight he revealed to me about my work. And I thank his decades-old little bamboo walking stick that Zens masters baton that I journeyed next to for hundreds of miles in India. It lays across my computer as I write. I think my every word leans against it and upon Eruch, in many ways. For he is now the hub of me, and I a spoke he moves.
Nancy Barton, an old friend and now my agent, made a fantastic contribution to this book in many ways. Carolyn Carlson, my wonderful editor of nearly a decade hey, looks like we finally got this outa glass click and big smooch.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, A PSYCHIATRIST I KNOW, AND MY PORTRAIT OF HAFIZ
T hey took a little walk on the wild side, they even got a bit outrageous, some of these Hafiz renderings. Their wings could not resist unfurling, breaking out of conventional space and cultural-bound time, hoping to lift many in the wake of their freedom. How did that ever happen? Well, truth isthe gods probably had all these poems up their sleeves way before I was born. My bucket just drew them from a well. And I think Hafiz would stand behind my artistic license with his work, moreover encourage it, as I feel so much of the original has been lost. And whatever can make us more sane and organic , perhaps aid in discerning the real, I feel a duty to offer. No holds barred, to me, is rule number one in poetry, and in all true art or service that cares only to comfort and inspire. An at times healthy lawlessness , can be just that, something a wise angel prescribes. Which to my mind translates into verses likeMoses and the Pinup Girl and Spiritual La-La Land making a debut. Some wanted me to take Moses and his sweetheart out of this book. But hell, Hafiz only cared about love. And I feel he gave my pen a wink.
Helpful I hope these poems are, and there is seriousness here. I have wept over many of these poems as they explored theological heights and mixed with our hearts beautiful, everyday emotions. The common is applauded and revealed as sacred. There is wonderful wit in some lines. The playful is turned loose and so is intelligence. The hallmark of Hafiz is to create a bond with his reader, and then offer his hand, when one might most need it. Hafiz was a true master in every sense of the word. A dear friend to any in spiritual need. Only the remarkable can do justice to him. I feel one has to take great liberties, at times, from some prevailing scholarly views of Hafiz to accomplish that; ones work then becomes controversial and vulnerable to criticism. What to do? So-called scholarship in regards to Hafiz can, it seems to me, greatly compromise his spirit and make him appear far less than I have seen and know he is.
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