{"product_id":"wild-women-seekers-protagonists-and-goddesses-in-sacred-indian-poetry-hardcover","title":"Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArundhathi Subramaniam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 questions\u003cbr\u003eabout custodians of gender and faith. It is time to tune into their brazenness, their heartbreaking\u003cbr\u003elonging. Not just for their sake but for ours too. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this anthology of sacred poetry that arrives after the much-loved book, \u003ci\u003eEating God\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003cbr\u003eBhakti 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArundhathi Subramaniam (Ed.) (Anthology Editor, Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is a poet and spiritual traveller. Her books include a volume on contemporary women on sacred journeys, \u003ci\u003eWomen Who Wear Only\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThemselves\u003c\/i\u003e; the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, \u003ci\u003eSadhguru: More Than\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ea Life\u003c\/i\u003e; anthologies of Bhakti poetry, \u003ci\u003eEating\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGod\u003c\/i\u003e, and of essays on sacred journeys, \u003ci\u003ePilgrim's India\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written the much-reprinted \u003ci\u003eBook of Buddha\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWidely translated and anthologized, she is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. She was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 2015. Arundhathi has received several awards, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, the Zee Indian Women's Award for Literature, and the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 428\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763436192032,"sku":"9780143464907","price":37.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/77f78e12eeda03b7918d10ed66f7d644.webp?v=1780235679","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wild-women-seekers-protagonists-and-goddesses-in-sacred-indian-poetry-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}