Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms

by Kahlil Gibran

Overview

Poetry is wisdom that captivates the mind. Wisdom is a poem you sing in your heart. This book of maxims contains much of the poetry and wisdom that has brought Khalil Gibran a notable following and worldwide fame. Its power comes from the great storehouse of spiritual life, otherwise it would not be so universal and powerful.

"Sand and Foam" was published in 1926, and "Jesus, the Son of Man" in 1928. At the beginning of 1929, Gibran was diagnosed with an enlarged liver. In a letter dated March 26, he wrote to Naimy that "the rheumatic pains are gone, and the swelling has turned to something opposite". In a telegram dated the same day, he reported being told by the doctors that he "must not work for full year," which was something he found "more painful than illness." The last book published during Gibran's life was "The Earth Gods", on March 14, 1931.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161114407
Publisher:	Anthony Bly
Publication date:	01/13/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	526,541
File size:	919 KB

About the Author

Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of "The Prophet", which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he lost his older half-brother and his mother the following year,

seemingly relying afterwards on his remaining sister's income from her work at a dressmaker's shop for some time. In 1904, Gibran's drawings were displayed for the first time at Day's studio in Boston, and his first book in Arabic was published in 1905 in New York City.

With the financial help of a newly met benefactress, Mary Haskell, Gibran studied art in Paris from 1908 to 1910.