Songs of Kabir

from JudyCroome

I downloaded this free Kindle edition with some trepidation, expecting what I paid...nothing. Instead, as I became fascinated with Evelyn Underhill's erudite and detailed introduction to this edition, translated by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, I realised I'd stumbled on a gem. The intr...

from greeniezona

I guess after reading The Poet X, I felt like I needed more poetry? I'm not sure that I'd ever heard of Kabir before, but I was drawn in by this striking NYRB edition. I was delighted to find myself called into these poems. Not as ecstatic or lusty as Rumi -- but just as wild, disdainful of human...

from JudyCroome

I downloaded this free Kindle edition with some trepidation, expecting what I paid...nothing. Instead, as I became fascinated with Evelyn Underhill's erudite and detailed introduction to this edition, translated by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, I realised I'd stumbled on a gem. The intr...

from greeniezona

I guess after reading The Poet X, I felt like I needed more poetry? I'm not sure that I'd ever heard of Kabir before, but I was drawn in by this striking NYRB edition. I was delighted to find myself called into these poems. Not as ecstatic or lusty as Rumi -- but just as wild, disdainful of human...