Career
Since the release of his first publication I Heard God Laughing, Ladinsky's books have been translated into German, Hebrew, Turkish, Indonesian, and Slovene languages and maintain international best-selling status in the religious and inspirational poetry genre. His work is widely quoted and is reprinted in the books of many authors, including Eckhart Tolle, Greg Mortenson, Matthew Fox, Janet Conner, Jack Kornfield, Roger Housden and Elizabeth Gilbert. Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sufi organizations, as well as non-affiliated spiritual and service groups, license Ladinsky's work for use and reprint.
Ladinsky's work has garnered positive commentary from Ambassador Akbar S. Ahmed, has been favorably endorsed by The Christian Science Monitor writer, Alexandra Marks, and has been quoted in contemporary Mnon-fiction by contemporary non-Persian literate American Muslim writers such as Asma Gull. The Islamic Foundation of North America uses Ladinsky's The Gift in its Islamic Literature curriculum. Some hail Ladinsky's contemporary work for creating an immediate access to the spirit and intention of Hafiz' verse. Ladinsky authored a short essay in the form of an Amazon.com review, entitled My Portrait of Hafiz, that offers a description of the process and background of his work.
Critics point out that Ladinsky's poems are originals, and not translations or interpretations of Hafez. Christopher Shackle describes The Gift as "not so much a paraphrase as a parody of the wondrously wrought style of the greatest master of Persian art-poetry." That his poems are neither written nor intended to fall under the purview of literal and/or scholarly translations of Hafiz' work, Ladinsky states in each of his volumes. In April 2009, the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, recited from Ladinsky's book at a Nowruz celebration in Toronto, but was later informed there was no corresponding Persian original for the poems.
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