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The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse : 110 Poets on the Divine, Paperback / softback Book

The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse : 110 Poets on the Divine Paperback / softback

Edited by Kaveh Akbar

Paperback / softback

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'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia.

Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices - from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata - this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day.

Together they show the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the spiritual, across place and time.

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