Sand and Foam
by Kahlil Gibran
Narrated by Denis Daly
This collection of aphorisms, poems and parables has been described
as the reflections of a philosopher watching from his window
and commenting on the scenes passing before him.
Barbara Young in her biographical study of Gibran, "The Man from Lebanon,"
assessed this text as follows: "Sand and Foam is a book that will
penetrate the consciousness deeply and inevitably, as The
Prophet has done. It is my opinion, and I have often heard
others express it as their own, that there is not
in the language another book of its character, a book that
has not only three dimensions — height, depth, and breadth -
but also the fourth dimension, timelessness, which is but
another word for time unbounded, limitless......"
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Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon, as a young man he immigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. Chiefly known for his 1923 book of essays, The Prophet he is the third best-selling poet of all time after Shakespeare and Laozi.
Denis Daly is an audiobook narrator and codirector of Voices of Today, an Australian spoken word production house.