God the All-Imaginer: Wisdom of Sufi Master Ibn Arabi in 99 Modern Sonnets

＂God the All-Imaginer＂ is the thirteenth book of poetry by Martin Bidney, Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Binghamton. He has also published ＂Blake and Goethe＂ and ＂Patterns of Epiphany.＂ The present book is Volume VI in his series ＂East-West Bridge-Builders,＂ which includes two books of dialogues with passages from the Qur’an, one with Goethe’s ＂West-East Divan＂ (which includes Goethe’s essays on the cultural history of Arabian and Persian poetry made available in English for the first time ever), a dialogue-book with Friedrich Rueckert’s ＂Wisdom of the Brahman＂ Books 1-4, and a con-verse-ation with medieval pub poet Muhammad Shemseddin Hafiz called ＂Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance.＂ Bidney creates form-faithful translations which, like his own lyrical comments or ＂replies,＂ are in highly crafted, artisanal verse. He translates from Polish, Russian, and German; three of his translation-and-dialogue books have been published by SUNY Press. His dialogic book with Poland’s greatest poet Adam Mickiewicz’s ＂Crimean Sonnets＂ was issued by Bernstein Verlag Bonn, and his trilingual ＂Like a Fine Rug of Erivan: West-East Poems＂ of Russia’s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin is available from Mommsen Foundation / Global Scholarly Publishing. Keep watching on his amazon author page!