The Poetry of Kabbalah (The Margellos World Republic of by Peter Cole,Aminadav Dykman

By Peter Cole,Aminadav Dykman

This groundbreaking assortment offers for the 1st time in English a considerable physique of poetry that emerges at once from the chic and sometimes startling global of Jewish mysticism. taking on Gershom Scholem’s name to plumb the “tremendous poetic power” hid within the Kabbalistic culture, Peter Cole offers striking renderings of labor composed on 3 continents over a interval of a few fifteen hundred years.

In addition to the translations and the texts of their unique languages, Cole provides a full of life and insightful advent, in addition to available commentaries to the poems. Aminadav Dykman provides a sublime afterword that locations the paintings within the context of global literature. As an entire, the gathering brings readers into the attention-grabbing strength box of Kabbalistic verse, the place the development blocks of either language and lifestyles itself are unveiled.

Excerpts from The Poetry of Kabbalah have been featured within the Paris assessment, Poetry, and Conjunctions.

“Studded with perception, and written with nice verve, this publication becomes a classic.”—Lawrence advantageous, writer of Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos

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