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Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz PDF

132 Pages·2001·24.62 MB·English
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run tKe Bel ovc cms of Hafi V^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/drunkonwineofbelOOhafi r I Urunk on tne Wine ol tne Delovea — J> ^v - Urunk on tnc Wine or tnc Delovea loo Roems o(HJi Translations by Thomas Rain Crowe Shambhala Boston O London 2001 Shambhala Publications, Inc. Horticultural Hall 300 MassachusettsAvenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.shambhala.com ©2001 byThomas Rain Crowe Some ofthe poems in this collection firstappeared in the followingpublications: Nexus vols. 20 (Fall 1994), 32 (Fall 1997): Oxygen; InternationalPoetryReview; and WPJournal (Ireland). The followingpoems appeared originally in In Winesellers Street, published byIbex Publishers (Bethesda, Md., 1998, isbn 0-936347-67-8), and are reprinted byper- mission: O Pilgrim, O Preacher, The Monks in the Monaster}', No Guarantees, Nothing, and The Essence ofGrace. The frontispiece (page ii) is ghazal 22 in Farsi. From Mehdi Nakosteen, The GhazaliyyatofHaafezofShiraz (Boulder: Este Es press, 1973), page 68. Thomas Growe's translation appears underthe title 'Tve Said It Before and I'll SayItAgain." All rights reserved. No partofthis book maybe reproduced in anyform orbyany means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopying, recording, or byany information storage and retrieval system, withoutpermission in writing from the publisher. 987654321 FIRST EDITION Printedin the UnitedStatesofAmerica @ This edition is printed on acid-free paperthatmeets the Am.erican National Standards Institute Z39.48 Standard. Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Ganada by Random House ofGanada Ltd library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Hafiz, 14th cent. [Divan. English. Selections] tDrraunsnlkatoionnsthbeywTihnoemoafsthReaibnelGorvoewde:.1—001sptoeed.ms ofHafiz / p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-57062-853-x (pbk.) I. Growe, Thomas Rain. II. Title. PK6465.Z31 C7613 2001 891'.5511—dc2i 2001020886 To my mother and father: the beloved c ontents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Wine and Love, by Meher Baba xix Look at This Beauty i Pilgrim 2 Writing in Code 3 A Bucket ofWine 4 Half-Hearted Hugs 5 1 Heard the Rumor 6 The Gambler 7 Preacher 8 Worthless 9 I've Got Everything 1 Need 10 1 Said 11 Listen to My Pen's Ad\ice 12 There Is Nothing in This Well but Wind 13 Let Me Tell You the Truth 14 Learning How to Fly 15 Paradise Face 16 Contents I've Said It Before and Fll Say ItAgain 17 In the School ofTruth 18 I Have Become Famous 19 No Rosar)' or Holy Coat 20 The Monks in the Monastery 21 Plant the Tree ofFriendship 22 The Only Dervish in the World Who Can't Dance 23 Finish This Poem 24 These Ghazals 25 Like the Morning Breeze 26 Even the Wealthy Read My Verse 27 The Rose 28 Good News! 29 Good Wine Good Company Is 30 Hoping Beyond Hope 31 The Great Forgetter 32 Begging at the Winehouse Door 33 It Is Time to Wake Up! 34 Come Back! 35 The Letter 36 Bound to Karma 37 Practice WhatYou Preach 38 This Cup ofWine Is Like Christ 39 Our Weeping Has Created Oceans 40 The Chessboard ofLovers 41 Look at This 42 Between Two Rivers 43 Bad News 44 River ofWine 45 No Guarantees 46 via ,^3ss Contents

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