The New Garden: Baha'i Poems
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Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Julio Savi, The New Garden: Baha'i Poems, bahai-library.com.
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A versa le writer, author, translator, and poet,                                                                                 Other publica ons of the Associa on for Bahá'í
Julio Savi, “Asmarino” by birth and of Italian                                                                                   Studies “Alessandro Bausani”:
origins and culture, is mainly interested in the   The desire pervading this anthology to invite,                                Invito all'apprendimento: perché si studia, come si
mys cal and philosophical aspects of the
sacred Scriptures. He has published three
through art, its readers to leave their “humble
mark” on this Earth… and to summon them,
The New Garden         studia, come si scrive [Invita on to Learning: Why
Study, How to Study, How to Write] (2019)
anthologies of Italian poems Lontananza            through poetic contemplation, to be active, makes         Bahá’í Poems        Il Maestro e la Parola: Riflessioni sulla vita e sulle
(2001), also published in English, Remoteness      it a very precious and original gift. Far from being                          opere di 'Abdu'l-Bahá nel centenario del trapasso
(2002), Lontananza – 2001-2016 (2016), and         a life manual, a conduct guideline, a catechism, it
Julio Savi        [The Master and the Word: Reflec ons on the Life
Chiaroscuro (2019). His poems in Italian and       is a collection of poems written and inspired by                              and Works of 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Centenary of His
English have appeared in Italian, American,        the life of every believer who struggles with                                 Passing] (2021)
Canadian and French magazines. In 2016 he
Casa Editrice Bahá’í
sincerity to perfect herself and to offer the
edited, in collabora on with Faezeh Mardani,       essence of the good fruits she has reaped to her
the Italian transla on from the Persian of         neighbors. It is an experience of darkness and
Prison Poems by the Iranian poetess Mahvash        light and a gradual transition from night to dawn.                            On the front-cover: Gustav Klimt (1862-1918),
Sabet, published by Verri Edizioni. Also in                                                                                      Italian Garden Landscape (1913), Austrian
collabora on with Faezeh Mardani he is                                                                                           painter Kunsthaus
preparing a significant Italian anthology of                                                                                      (ArtHouse), Zug, Switzerland.
poems by Ṭáhirih, a Persian poet who lived in
Iran in the first half of the nineteenth century.
-- The New Garden: Baha'i Poems (Used by permission of the curator)