I, Lalla : the poems of Lal Ded / translated from the Kashmiri with an introduction and notes by Ranjit Hoskote
Imprint
Haryana : Penguin Books, 2013
Descript
lxxvii, 246 pages ; 21 cm
SUMMARY
The poems of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded, popularly known as Lalla, strike us like brief and blinding bursts of light. Emotionally rich yet philosophically precise, sumptuously enigmatic yet crisply structured, these poems are as sensuously evocative as they are charged with an ecstatic devotion. Stripping awa a century of Victorian-inflected translations and paraphrases, and restoring the jagged colloquial power of Lalla's voice, in Ranjit Hoskote's new translation these poems are glorious manifestos of illumination.-- Bak cover
CONTENT
Introduction: Lal Ded ; The vectors of lalla's voice ; Lalla's poetry ; The tantric underground ; Lalla's utterance ; Translation -- The poems
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Thailand and ASEAN Information Center (6th Floor) : Indian Studies
