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One of the great icons of mysticism, by the Persian poet who has captured today’s spiritual audience - now in a first-ever English translation by his premier interpreter. In an intriguing and deeply personal introduction to the exquisitely packaged The Glance, Coleman Barks interprets this love that transcends time, gender, sex, and age. This program features 12 sensational poems enhanced with music to intensify the mystical Rumi experience.

Since its debut in 1998, In Our Time has amassed a dedicated following of more than 2 million listeners. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg, with a panel of guest experts, each show features a plethora of fascinating facts and inspirational discourse on topics ranging from democracy to dark matter. This specially curated collection celebrates the rich diversity of poetry in English, focusing on 25 major works and writers from the mediaeval era to the 20th Century.

For over a century, the beautiful words of the Lebanese American poet, Kahlil Gibran, have graced everything from greeting cards and wedding invitations to inspirational wall hangings and corporate motivational literature. By one account, Gibran is the third best selling poet of all time.

"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets...

Jeevan mein hamaare saamane ka_ii aisee paristhitiyaan aatee hain jinhen ham badalanaa chaahate hain, unhen behatar banaanaa chaahate hain, fir chaahe vo cheezaen aapake ateet se judee huii hon yaa fir aapake vartamaan se. Amit guptaa kee raat ke us paar unake man ke bheetar chalane vaalee khoj kaa lekhaa-jokhaa hai, jisamen vo sapanon kee, jeevan roopee prashnon ke uttar kee aur ujaale kee khoj men juṭe hue hain.

Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Secrets is a collection of Gibran's words on life's big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are part of the fabric of existence, and it is an attempt to penetrate and explain the mysteries of life.

दोन ओळींच्याच जगण्यातून जी, अनुभवाला अमर करते ती ग़ज़ल. या ऑडिओ बुक मध्ये मंजिरी धामणकर यांनी निवडक शेरांचे मराठी भाषांतर केलेले आहे. या ऑडिओ बुक मुळे मराठी वाचकांना उर्दू शायरीची ओळख होईल हे ऑडिओ बुक ऐकताना तुम्हाला असं लक्षात येईल की ही भाषांतरं नुसती उर्दू शब्दांची भाषांतरं नसून शेरामधल्या भावनांची आहेत आणि याला एक मराठी तडका देखील आहे. जणू हे भाषांतर नसून भावांतरच आहे."

Geoffrey Chaucer is one of our grandest and most enduring poets; an architect of our vocabulary and our literary style. By examining the English writer's texts, from his short love lyrics to the copious profusion of character and incident that is The Canterbury Tales, these 12 lectures will prepare you for the challenges of Chaucer's oeuvre, and will provide an understanding of what makes him the true "father" of English poetry.

Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma heir. Even so, people recognized the depth of his realization, and he was sought out by people of all walks of life for the teaching to be experienced in just being around him.

Harmonium was American poet Wallace Stevens's first book, published when he was 44 years old. It represents his complete poetic output up to that point in his life. It is now considered a masterpiece, one of the great contributions to literary Modernism. It is a mixture of pure, rational, philosophical thought, and imaginary nonsense-verse. It is striking in its diversity and includes some of Stevens' best known and most-loved poems.

The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods.

Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times best seller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything in between: love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.

उर्दू दुनिया यानी पाकिस्तान-हिन्दुस्तान का बड़ा और मक़बूल शायर अहमद फ़राज़, जिसकी शायरी, दिल, दिमाग़ और रूह को नए जज़्बों और एहसास से सराबोर कर देती है।

If you feel like you're running out of time, if you're grieving a relationship or worried you haven't yet experienced one, if you're unsure what to do with your life or if you're making the right decisions, if you find yourself comparing your milestones to everyone else's, if you feel weighed down by the pressure to succeed, if you feel like you're growing one day but feel stuck the next, if you feel lost... this is a poetry collection for you.

Bold, sharp and amazingly relevant, Naveen Chourey's impassioned poetry-on mob lynching, Kashmir and the plight of out soldiers among others-will force you to think afresh on nationalism, patriotism and the state of our country. Naveen's youthful idealism, vision for an egalitarian world and...

Likhate hue durgaa, ridhmaa, siddhi aur firadaus in saare kiradaaron men maan kee viraaṭataa ke darshan hue hain. Maan ke lie raameshvar kee tadap kaheen n kaheen meree apanee hee hai. Iishvar ke pratiroop raameshvar kaa us aashram kee chaaradeevaaree men dam ghuṭataa hai. Visheṣ paridhaan aur karmakaanḍa raameshvar kee soch ke darshan kee viraaṭataa ko kam naheen kar paate hain.

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose. In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic...

Known for celebration of the spirit of Urdu language, literature and culture, Rekhta .

Playwright, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange originally composed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in as a mesmerizingly original choreopoem. The New York Post called it "rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." Now a new audiobook, it chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of women facing shatteringly difficult issues, and evokes the indomitable power of enduring hope and joy.

These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot...