{"product_id":"the-broken-wings-the-procession-by-kahlil-gibran1957-copy","title":"A Self-Portrait  Kahlil Gibran (1969)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Letters mingle souls,\" said the poet John Donne, \u0026amp; no better proof of this statement could be found than this collection of the letters of Kahlil Gibran. In his letters the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Broken Wings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Voice of the Master\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u0026amp; other 20th-century classics bared his soul completely, \u0026amp; their strange magic inspired in his correspondents a like self-revelation. The letters in this book span 1904 to 1930, \u0026amp; truly constitute a self-portrait of the poet in the time of his greatest productivity. These are Gibran's Boston \u0026amp; New York years, with an interlude in Paris, during which he studied under the sculptor Auguste Rodin. There are touching letters here to his sister Miriana \u0026amp; other members of his family; there are thoughtful letters to such influential men as Ameen Guraieb, rhe editor who introduced the Arabic-American public; \u0026amp; above all, there are impassioned letters to May Ziadeh, the Lebanese writer with whom Gibran had formed an extraordinary \"literary \u0026amp; love relationship\" entirely through correspondence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45554018451683,"sku":"EXL002012","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/52158206.jpg?v=1727359795","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/the-broken-wings-the-procession-by-kahlil-gibran1957-copy","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}