S a c r e d F a c e
The Poetry & Art of Jennifer Ferraro
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." -Rumi
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S a c r e d F a c e The Poetry & Art of Jennifer Ferraro "Let the beauty we love be what we do." -Rumi |
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Translated and compiled by Jennifer Ferraro and Latif Bolat
Poems and Pyrographs by Jennifer Ferraro
Sample Images from the Book:
Sample Poems
The
poems unfold as spontaneously as good conversation and somehow slow us
and quiet us down, each one becoming the only poem in the world.
Sensually honed and extravagant, the collection is filled with bold and
delicious writing that floats tenderly between the layers of emotional,
spiritual and sexual intimacy… Great
poetry can alter the way we see ourselves and this collection certainly
accomplishes that. It can also change the way we see the world. This
work calls forth our deepest being and bids us to live by its
promptings… The poems in this collection encourage us to wake up and
love and to open our eyes to the wonder of what is around us, to the
wonder of what is deep inside the human heart, and above all, to be
awake to the presence, the sensation of our own being, in the midst of
it all.
email: jferraro28@hotmail.
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Last updated March 2007
Original Trade Paperback
List Price $17.95/ISBN 978-1-883-991-68-5
Published by White Cloud Press, Ashland, OR, January 2007
This collection presents, for the first time in English, a compilation of eight centuries of the mystic hymns of Turkey's rebellions Sufi poets -- the popular folk counterparts to Rumi whose poems are characterized by a passionate and unorthodox committment to Truth. At the time Rumi was writing in ancient Anatolia, many other great mystics in the region were also composing wild, ecstatic, and controversial poems that were circulated among the people as spiritual songs and are still played and sung today in sacred dervish ceremonies and gatherings. The poems present a spiritual tradition from the Islamic world that bravely challenged orthodox religion and emphasized universal mystic love and tolerance.
"Here are the unheard voices of the mystical poets of the Turkish Bektashi tradition, a tradtion that influenced Jelaluddin Rumi and that also remains one of the most vibrant, independent and passionate in living Sufism today. In clear and elegant translations, the authors unleash the wild voices of these mystics for us, as they sing about love, relationship and the purpose of life." - Neil Douglass-Klotz, PhD, author of Desert wisdom: Sacred Middle Eastern Writings from Goddess through the Sufis.
We are truly grateful to Latif Bolat and Jennifer Ferraro for offering us a rare glimpse into the universe of Anatuhan Sufi poetry. For from the universe of the Heart we are given a fresh perspective on our human life here. It is a joy to be n the company of the friends of the Friend. Their songs resonate through the centuries." - Kabir Helminiski, Sufi Shaikh, translator of Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self.
Jennifer Ferraro
List Price $15/ISBN 0-615-12276-0
Published by Sacred Face Publishing, Santa Fe, NM, 2002
Trade Paperback, 76 pp.
Monochromatic illustrations
Divine Nostalgia,published in 2002 in Turkey, is Jennifer Ferraro’s first collection of poems, and is illustrated with her dramatic, old world wood-burned art
images. The poems feature an intimate and lyrical voice and dance with the energy of the divine Feminine—embodying the sensuous sacred and the “nostalgia” for the divine that speaks through the inspired poetry of every age.
"Echo"
"Initiation"
The Blood
And The
Rest is Nonsense
Envisioning the Morning
About Divine Nostalgia
From a review by Southwest Book Views (Autumn, 2003):
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