Prayers

by Peter Washington (Editor)

Overview

Like music and dance, poetry is an art that antedates our secular civilization, and it has always borne the marks of its origin as a means by which to approach and praise the divine. The poems in this volume, drawn from cultures throughout the world, testify to the power of language to embody our profoundest spiritual needs, our most sacred aspirations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679444664
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/31/1995
Series:	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	4.40(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.