This new volume of unpublished writings by Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, The Broken Wings, The Voice of the Master, and other twentieth-century classics, demonstrates three major aspects of his genius.
In one, he is the fiery prophet, assailing the corruptions of Syrian governmental and upper social circles with the wrath and scorn of Biblical seers.
In another, he is the poet of love, apostrophizing beauty, youth, and nature, particualry the wonderful vistas of Lebanon, with its cedar groves and mountains, in poetry of passionate tenderness.
Translated and edited by Anthony R. Ferris
About the Author
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 in Lebanon and died in New York in 1931. His family emigrated to the United States in 1895. In his early teens, the artistry of Gibran's drawings caught the eye of his teachers and he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day, who encouraged and supported Gibran in his creative endeavors. A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers in 1898, and Gibran held his first art exhibition in 1904 in Boston. In 1908, Gibran went to study art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years. He later studied art in Boston. While most of Gibran's early writing was in Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of 26 poetic essays.
