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9780807063866

Mirabai

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807063866

  • ISBN10:

    080706386X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-19
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
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Summary

Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) fought tradition and celebrated a woman's right to an independent life in her ecstatic poems. Her royal family arranged an early marriage for her, but she felt a marriage to Krishna was more important. As a result, her life became a model of social defiance and spiritual integrity. During her lifetime, Mira's reputation spread across her country. She was known as a woman of immense talent and devotion. By the time she died in 1550, she was considered a saint. People across India recited and danced to her poems, and they still do today. In this collection, Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield, two of America's best poets, have created lively English versions of Mirabai's poems, using fresh images and energetic rhythms to make them accessible to modern readers. Their work makes clear that Mirabai's poetry transcends her time and culture. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley provides an afterword to the volume that discusses what is known of Mirabai's life and reputation. With a historian's precision, he shows how Bly and Hirshfield's versions belong to a tradition of reinterpretation and rephrasing that is already centuries old. Mirabai comes to life through the impressive interpreting of her poems by Bly and Hirshfield. The poems feel as fresh today as they must have felt when this amazing woman sung them herself five centuries ago.

Author Biography

Robert Bly has earned many honors for his original poems, which include The Winged Energy of Delight, and for his translations of twenty-two poets, including Kabir. He is the author of the bestseller Iron John, and with Jane Hirshfield has published a new translation of Mirabai (Beacon / 6386-6 / $16.00).

Table of Contents

A few words about Mirabai
Mirabai's teachings
All I was doing was breathingp. 3
The daggerp. 4
Mira has finished with waitingp. 5
It's true I went to the marketp. 6
Mira the milkmaidp. 7
The fish and the crocodilep. 8
Polish into goldp. 9
A dream of marriagep. 10
Ankle bellsp. 12
The flutep. 13
The rope of jasmine blossomsp. 14
His hairp. 15
The gooseberry patchp. 16
To my brother-in-law Ranap. 17
Fate is strangep. 18
Not hiding not seekingp. 19
Don't go, don't gop. 20
Why Mira can't come back to her old housep. 21
The necklacep. 24
How this will gop. 25
The arrowp. 26
Heading for the oceanp. 27
Don't tell me no, motherp. 28
Where did you go?p. 29
Mira asks only to join with the elephants & parrotsp. 30
Mira is jasminep. 33
The cuckoo calls a beloved who comesp. 34
Only the beloved can open the blossoming springp. 36
Mira is mad with lovep. 38
In all my livesp. 39
The doorp. 40
The storm cloudsp. 41
Mira the beep. 44
No longer thirstyp. 45
The coffer with the poisonous snakep. 46
Mira the slavep. 47
Awake to the namep. 48
The long drought is overp. 50
Near the thronep. 51
Drunk for lifep. 52
Water through the fingersp. 53
Wild plums are sweetestp. 56
Mira swims freep. 57
Mira the bartererp. 58
The cloudsp. 59
To dance for the dark one is all the clothing Mira needsp. 60
Faithfulnessp. 62
Mira the lotusp. 63
The heat of midnight tearsp. 64
No more droughtp. 66
Afterwordp. 67
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