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Ecstatic Sufi Poetry Comes Alive To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: stirred ablaze by inspired music and rhythms before a live audience. On I Want Burning, Coleman Barks fuses his passionate scholarship with a deep...

A first person epic poem of Odysseus' life and journey. This poem has all the twists and turns that one might expect from the teller of the tale...which is in this case Odysseus himself. The poem starts with Odysseus chiding his unnamed summoner, thus narrating his life, starting with his childhood and ending with his ultimate triumph at the death of the suitors. However, Odysseus has an agenda of his own and attempts to turn the tables on his foe.

La nuit, les lames de son envie ne rasent plus que l'ennui... Les alcoolos sont gris. (Je ne crois pas faire ici quelconque prophétie.) J'avais, à cette occasion, dévié des nymphes de vent, contre marées et vendredi, dimanche, confins de cet océan. Maintenant que vous savez cela, tous les espoirs restent permis.