MEHER BABA'S DEGREESSECLUSION HILL DEGREES POEMS & PHOTOGRAPHS Paul Smith 'It was not until the late 70's when I was walking back to Meherazad from Pimpalgaon in India and taking many of the photographs of Seclusion Hill that are now in in this book that I realized that Mt. Fuji represented the Mind... limited and pristine, cool and precise, soaring into the heavens. Seclusion Hill represented the Heart: so loving, hardworking, gem-like, jewel of understanding, the entrance to the Soul, the connection between lover and Beloved, the coming together (barakah) of the human and the Divine, the connection to the One. So, this book began at that moment when I stopped to photograph the hill in the far distance; all of this came together in that moment, but... the writing of the poems would take almost forty years and many other books to be written, but... I always knew that (God-willing) one day I would finish it. So, here it is' Paul Smith. Introduction on Life & Work of Meher Baba, etc. 7 x 10 inches (17.80 x 25.4 cm) 120 pages. Black & White Edition COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S VERSION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Lit.) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman (Aloba), translator into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith is a poet, seeker, author and translator of over 150 books of Sufi poets of Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Iqbal, Ghalib and many others, as well as poetry, film, fiction, plays, biographies and... many screenplays. www.newhumanitybooksbookheaven.com