Based on the Advices and Queries of Britain Yearly Meeting, Simon Webb's sequence of forty-two Quaker sonnets tries to distil the essence of Quakerism as he understands it.
It's a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, 14th century Sufi mystic, previously unavailable in English. Translated by native Persian speakers, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, this collection will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere.
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.
This second, expanded edition of "Sonnets on Courtship, Marriage, and Family" by Kenneth Boulding, noted economist, social philosopher, peace researcher, and Quaker, contains 78 sonnets spanning nearly fifty years of courtship and family life.