All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays

by Robert Vivian

Book Overview

All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took up a deep study of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the religious order that performs the now-famous dervish dance. Vivian's fascination seeped into his writing, and his newly conceived dervish essays reflect the dynamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496220331
• ISBN13: 9781496220332
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"