The list below references the songs on the album and the poet who wrote the source poem.  Most have links for further information on the poets themselves.  Please note that for some there are multiple spellings/english transliterations for their names, so some variance  in spelling occurs.

How Did the Rose
Awake My Dear
Absolutely Clear
Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c. 1320-1389)   Persia


Slicing Potatoes
Rabia of Basra (c. 717-801)   Mesopotamia


On a Day When The Wind is Perfect
The Breeze at Dawn
The Elephant Story
This We Have Now
Walk to the Well
Out Beyond Ideas
Jalaludin Rumi (1207-1273)  Afghanistan/Turkey


No One Knows His Name
St Francis of Assisi  (1182-1226)   Italy


Some Seeds
St John of the Cross   (1542-1591)  Spain


You Who Knew Me
Yehuda HaLevi (c.1085 or 1086 - sometime after 1140) Spain


Midnight
Comprised of the combined works of:
Dogen Kigen(1200-1253) Japan and  Wu-men Hui-kai (1183-1260) China

Wu-men Hui k'ai - was a Chinese  Zen Buddhist Master renowned for his koans.  


Trembling With Joy
Uvavnuk -  mid 19th to 20th century, Netsilik Inuit lands of North America

Uvavnuk -  While there is little exact information available on Uvavnuk, the common thread in most all of what is published is that she was said to have been engulfed in a ball of fire, or hit by lightning, afterwhich time she had shamanic powers and dedicated herself to healing others.   There are numerous translations of the Song of Uvavnuk, by most accounts the first of which was done by  Knud Rasmussen sometime in the early 1900s.   Some biographical information lists her as a Netsilik Inuit, elsewhere she is identified as an Iglooik Inuit.  In either case, she lived in the extreme North of North America in Inuit lands.

Shell Trick
Tukaram (c. 1608-1649)  India


Three Things
Solomon Ibn Gabirol(1021 or 1022 - 1052 approx.)  Spain