{"product_id":"dark-night-john-of-the-cross-may-21st-2026","title":"Dark Night - John of the Cross - May 21st, 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRELEASE DATE ----- May 21st, 2026 ----- Pre-order now and we'll save you a copy!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 from his extended commentary on the poem ‘Dark Night’.\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark Night 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\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Martha Sprackland, with an Introduction by Colin Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53524801093969,"sku":"9780241699294","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/4618\/2960\/files\/DarkNight.jpg?v=1776162822","url":"https:\/\/lattesandliterature.com\/products\/dark-night-john-of-the-cross-may-21st-2026","provider":"Latte's and Literature","version":"1.0","type":"link"}