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Bhakti poetry with a touch on tantra,
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This review is from: Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair : Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess (Paperback)
If you are unfamiliar with the ecstatic religious poetry tradition - Rumi, Mirabai, ... this is not the volume to start on; read Mirabai's For Love of the Dark One first. However, if you have some familarity with the tradition, you'll find this book fascinating - this is more recent (18th century) and closer to the tribal origins of the worship of Kali/Uma/Pavarti/Gauri/Tara. These poems are popular in the sense that they have been kept alive through oral transmission rather than written manuscripts. One poem with a surprising rural flavor stands out: ".../My body is Tara's field/ in which the God of Gods/ like a good farmer / sows his seed with a great mantra. / Around this body, faith / is set like a fence / with patience for posts ..."
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Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair : Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess by R?mapras?da Sena (Paperback - Oct. 1999)
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