“Certain sages belong to the whole of humanity. The fifteenth-century sage Kabir, straddling Indian and Islamic traditions, is among them. His poetry has been translated from the original Hindi by able translators like Rabindranath Tagore previously. With the passage of time, those earlier literal translations are showing their age. Thomas Rain Crowe’s versions here, working with the earlier translations, have a freshness that brings them to contemporary American tastes. His style follows in the tradition of Robert Bly, with a deep familiarity with Sufi wisdom in the American context. Let us take up Thomas Rain Crowe’s updating of Tagore and dance in the realization that ‘The Beloved lives inside of you!’”
—Omid Safi, Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University, and founder of Illuminated Courses and Tours

Thomas Rain Crowe

Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally published author, editor, and translator of more than thirty books.

His works include:

• Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005) - a multi-award-winning nature memoir.
• Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (1997) - an anthology of contemporary Celtic-language poets.
• The Laugharne Poems (1997) - a collection of original verse written at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales.
• Two volumes of translations of the poetry of the Sufi poet Hafiz: In Wineseller’s Street and Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved.
• The Perfect Work: Poems of Hafiz (1999) - a work of poetry and music.

Crowe has also served as an editor for major literary and cultural journals and anthologies, and is the founder and publisher of New Native Press.

During the 1970s, he lived in San Francisco, working with individuals featured in his book Starting from San Francisco: The Baby Beat Generation and the Second San Francisco Renaissance (2018). He was also an original member of the group that revived Beatitude magazine during that period.

A longtime resident of the southern Appalachians, Crowe now lives in the Tuckasegee watershed in the “Little Canada” community of Jackson County, North Carolina.

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