To Touch the Sky

Included are

• The Song of Songs
• Poems (Sappho)
• The Cosmic Fragments (Herakleitos)
• Saying Poems (Yeshua the Messiah)
• Apocalypse (John of Patmos)
• Taoist and Buddhist Poems (Wang Wei)
• Allegorical Bestiary (Bishop Theobaldus)
• Mystical Poems (Mira Bai)
• Mystical Poems (St. John of the Cross)
• Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke)

The poetry included here spans three thousand years and contains some of the most profound and inspiring writing of world literature: some following the way of fantastic realism while some is mysto-erotic. As Barnstone says: "[I]n the instance of our authors, the unsayable has been refashioned into the precision of poetry."