Dark Night of the Soul
By John of the Cross; Mirabai Starr (Translator)
(Riverhead Hardcover, Hardcover, 9781573222051, 150pp.)
Publication Date: February 2002
Categories: Mysticism
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The first English translation of the classic sixteenth-century Spanish love poem of the soul and its commentary by a spiritual seeker outside of the Church.
When prayers go dry on the tongue, and any sense of God in the world is lost, it seems the spiritual seeker has nowhere to turn. This is the dark night of the soul that the great sixteenth-century saint John of the Cross experienced when he could no longer feel God's presence and when prayer and spiritual practice no longer inspired him. The poem he wrote while in prison, on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, has never been translated complete with his later commentary by anyone outside the Catholic church. Mirabai Starr brings this work to the twenty-first century in a brilliant and beautiful rendering.
Mirabai Starr,, who has studied Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, brings the seeker's sensibility to Dark Night of the Soul. She is a published writer of fiction and essays and is adjunct professor of philosophy, religious studies, and Spanish at the University of New Mexico at Taos. She has been studying St. John of the Cross's text for more than twenty years.
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