Gary Gach – Hafiz's Little Book of Life

In Person Author Talk
* Saturday, December 9, 4:00 pm

Hafiz’s Little Book of Life is a lush collection of more than 250 selections from the most beloved name in all of Persian literature. Indeed, his mystic, lyric poetry is cherished as one of the great achievements of world literature, on a par with Dante, Goethe, and Shakespeare.

Gary Gach has cotranslated three books of poetry from Korean by Ko Un: Flowers of a Moment, BOA / Lannan Translation Series (Northern California Book Award for Translation); Ten Thousand Lives, and Songs for Tomorrow.

His anthology What Book!?—Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, (Parallax Press) received an American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation.

He’s also author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism and Pause, Breathe, Smile.