Daniel Ladinsky was born and raised in the Midwest. For six years he made his home in a spiritual community in western India, where he worked in a rural clinic free to the poor, and lived with the intimate disciples and family of Meher Baba. Daniel has published three volumes of Hafiz’ poetry in translation: The Gift, The Subject Tonight Is Love, and I Heard God Laughing. His new book is an anthology titled Love Poems from God (Penguin, 2002).