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  <title><![CDATA[the gift poems by hafiz the great sufi master]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 29 08:47:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I crawled through this more because I wanted to savor, meditate on the words and lyricisim in the humble english translation.  Many of the poems are good, and quite a few are universally exceptional. Most are amazingly clever for the many layers of meaning one can infer with each work.  You can enjo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33013963">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 05 15:41:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 05 15:47:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that I've read every poem at least three times.  So beautiful, so funny and so good for the soul.  These poems have become a part of my daily life.  My favorite is Covers Her Face With Both Hands:<br/>What We speak Becomes the house we live in<br/>Who will want to sleep in your bed <br/>I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29349697">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 03 11:10:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 03 11:10:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[my all time favorite book.........hafiz writes about his relationship with god, as one who would write about their lover.........hafiz is very simple and down to earth and relates his love of god in the every day way and the everyday man........my connection to god has bloomed because of his poetry....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19378125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20058877">
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  <read_at>Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know enough about Sufi masters to give much of a review...but I really did enjoy many of these poems.  Here's one of my favorites...<br/><br/>Two Giant Fat People<br/><br/>God<br/>And I have become <br/>Like two giant fat people <br/>Living in a <br/>Tiny boat.<br/>We<br/>Keep<br/>...]]></body>
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    <review id="24919524">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[14th century poetry translated from Persian.  This guy is right on!  It is amazing how we are still pondering the same things today and what really matters.  I was blown away by some of his stuff.  Not much is known about him.  He was from what is now Iran.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a book. It is fire against which to warm yourself, a pouch of sacred wine swinging from the hip of a bedouin, a long lost friend. Gift indeed. Thanks Hafiz, Thanks Ladinsky!]]></body>
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    <review id="24835704">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 18 14:44:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Drunken, erotic divine poetry of a Sufi saint and his God.  Epic, masterful, hilarious.  Reading Hafiz is like washing off old skin and coming out a baby again.]]></body>
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    <review id="24527841">
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    <body><![CDATA[Ladinsky is amazingly talented in bringing Hafiz to English words; these are some of the best, most affecting poems you will ever experience.]]></body>
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    <review id="27108380">
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 13 07:51:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading these poems for years.  Hafiz writes love poetry about God.  It breaks your heart in the best possible way.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="22336231">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 15:29:12 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[always reading. currently reading since 2002, even though hafiz tells me &quot;i could not say anything you could not tell me.&quot;]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 13 05:58:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 13 06:05:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I flip open this book just because my heart needs a hug.  It does wonders.]]></body>
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    <review id="28293462">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 14:09:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 25 14:12:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whitty and warm. I pick up this book at least once a week.]]></body>
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    <review id="28056227">
    <user id="78787">
    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 23 09:24:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 23 09:25:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Nietzsche were tender.... he would have been hafiz. ]]></body>
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    <review id="35219201">
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 13 15:25:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than Rumi. Far cleverer. More loving.]]></body>
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    <review id="32278741">
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    <body><![CDATA[always reading and re-reading]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my favorite poetry!]]></body>
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