The Drunken Universe

Hermetic Library fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry by Peter Lamborn Wilson (also known as Hakim Bey):

Peter Lamborn Wilson's The Drunken Universe

 

The selections in this volume are terrific and the translations are lucid. The commentary is fairly restrained—much more could be written about any of the poems—and readers without much familiarity with Islam will probably miss many allusions. The appended “bio-bibliographies” of poets are succinct and helpful. The one genuinely bad thing about the book is the calligraphic font in which all the poems are set; it makes reading them more difficult and distracts from the beauty of the language and ideas. [via]

 

 

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