{"product_id":"9780811213967","title":"To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual and Metaphysical Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo Touch the Sky contains Willis Barnstone's translations of some of the most inspiring writing of world literature: ten mystical and spiritual poets spanning three thousand years.Included areThe Song of SongsPoems (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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015368294640,"sku":"9780811213967","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811213967_p0.jpg?v=1763742516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811213967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}