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For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics
by
Roger Housden (Goodreads Author)
Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and Kabir) have reached a wide audience in recent years, the poetry of the Christi...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
November 1st 2009
by Hay House
(first published 2009)
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This includes some fantastic poetry from lesser known poets, but also some quite inexplicably severely edited poems (sometimes as little as a mere couplet)from better known ones; the likes of Eckhart, St. John of the Cross and Dante, thus leading me to suspect that the editor simply wanted to belabour a single point over and over, which he does very well.
However, there is an air of pretension about it. I've been reading four anthologies of Christian poetry concurrently and this one is conspicuou...more
This has quickly become one of my favorite collections of sacred poetry within the many Christian traditions. John of the Cross, Thomas Merton, Hildegard von Bingen, Kahlil Gibran, Dante, Angelus Silesius, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Meister Eckhart, William Blake… and Roger Housden’s brief, thoughtful insights. Another excellent book by the editor of Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Open Your Heart, and Ten Poems to Set You Free.
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This book is excellent because it not only shares poems from various mystics but walks you through interpretations of their writings within the context of the time period in which they lived and other prevailing philosophies of that time. The poems can also serve as guides during your personal prayer time.
This has become one of my favorite books. I seem to come back to it a lot. It seems to express and bring me to some of the deepest places within myself.
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Roger Housden is the author of some twenty books of non fiction, including the best selling Ten Poems series. His new book, SAVED BY BEAUTY: ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN ROMANTIC IN IRAN, comes out on May 17 2011 with Broadway Books.
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