The Gift is Daniel Ladinsky

Daniel Ladinsky (born 1948) is an American poet and interpreter of mystical poetry, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Over a twenty-year period, beginning in 1978, he spent extensive time in a spiritual community at Meherabad, in western India, where he worked in a rural clinic free to the poor, and lived with the intimate disciples and family of Meher Baba.

He has written four works based on poetry of 14th-century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz: I Heard God Laughing (1996), The Subject Tonight Is Love (1996) The Gift (1999), and A Year With Hafiz:Daily Contemplations, (2011) as well as an anthology, Love Poems from God:Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (2002), and The Purity of Desire:100 Poems of Rumi (2012). In introductions to his books, Ladinsky notes that he offers interpretations and renderings of the poets, rather than literal or scholarly translations. His work is based on conveying and being "faithful to the living spirit" of Hafiz, Rumi, as well as other mystic poets.

Books:
I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz (1996 & 2003)
The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz (1996 & 2006)
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz (1999)
Love Poems from God : Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (2002)
A Year With Hafiz: Daily Contemplations (2011)
The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi (2012)

Audio:
Daniel Ladinsky; Stevin McNamara (music) (2002). "Hafiz: The Scent of Light". Sounds True.
Daniel Ladinsky; Sol Seppy - Pssscheeow (music) (2006).
"Hafiz, A Mime". Grönland Records.

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