{"product_id":"dark-night-by-st-john-of-the-cross-9780241699294","title":"Dark Night","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe major devotional work by one of the greatest Christian mystics and Spanish poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eO living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T.S. Eliot and Mary Oppen. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Cross's complete poems and a selection of his prose, including excerpts from his extended commentary on the poem \u003cem\u003eDark Night\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his immediate, sensual writing, we see a soul searching for meaning and union with the divine—both meek and bold, deserving and undeserving, oscillating between light and dark, soaring and falling, desperation and salvation. \u003cem\u003eDark Night\u003c\/em\u003e gives us a picture of faith at once confronting and inspiriting, and of the power of words as a means of spiritual transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Martha Sprackland, with an introduction by Colin Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648320553196,"sku":"9780241699294","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241699294-dark-night.jpg?v=1779255421","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dark-night-by-st-john-of-the-cross-9780241699294","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}