Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry - Hardback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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The names of Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi and Andal, are known to many, but innumerable women poets remain relatively unknown. When we hear of them, it is invariably as plaster saints or meek followers. It is time to smell the danger in their words again, to listen to their feral sensuality, their searing questionsabout custodians of gender and faith. It is time to tune into their brazenness, their heartbreakinglonging. Not just for their sake but for ours too.In this anthology of sacred poetry that arrives after the much-loved book, Eating God, Arundhathi Subramaniam weaves together haunting voices of, by and for women across the Indian subcontinent. Here is a lineage of audacious woman-centred spirituality that traverses the poetry of ancient Buddhist nuns,Bhakti and Sufi mystics, tantrikas and Vedantins. There are women here, and men singing as women, and both raising their voices in praise of the sacred feminine. Brought to us through translation, these poems surprise with how intimately familiar their ravenous yearnings and ecstatic freedoms are. Wild Women invites us to reclaim an explosive inheritance of female power, rapture and wisdom.
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