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Kabir

Author of Songs of Kabîr

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About the Author

Image credit: An 1825 CE painting depicts Kabir weaving By Unknown - internet: http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/aiis/mini-paint/company/004.html physical:Jaipur, Central Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15248939

Works by Kabir

Songs of Kabîr (1915) — Author — 371 copies, 3 reviews
The Bijak of Kabir (1982) 76 copies
Kabir: The Weaver's Songs (Penguin Classics) (2003) — Author — 41 copies
Try to Live to See This (1976) 11 copies
Cien poemas de Kabir (1982) 8 copies, 1 review
Poemas místicos (1989) 6 copies, 2 reviews
Maxims of Kabir (1999) 5 copies
Kabir (1974) 2 copies
99 luuletust (2003) 2 copies

Associated Works

Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (Compass) (2002) — Contributor — 528 copies, 9 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 496 copies, 2 reviews
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 441 copies, 4 reviews
Ten Poems to Change Your Life (2001) — Contributor — 399 copies, 5 reviews
God Makes the Rivers To Flow: Sacred Literature of the World (1982) — Contributor — 230 copies, 2 reviews

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1440 (circa)
Date of death
1518 (circa)
Gender
male
Occupations
weaver
poet
Nationality
India
Birthplace
Lahartara, near Kashi (present-day Varanasi), India
Place of death
Maghar, India
Associated Place (for map)
India

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Reviews

8 reviews
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 divisions like caste and conflicting religious traditions, just as delighted to use the absurd to mock our rational understanding.

Delightful always to find a voice calling to you across centuries show more and cultures with such clarity. I am sure much credit goes to the translator. show less
Em 1945, num de seus Cantos Pisanos, Ezra Pound recordou seus anos em Londres: “Thus saith Kabir: ‘Politically’ said Rabindranath.”
Sobre Kabir, os fatos são poucos, muitas as lendas. Ele nasceu em Benares (hoje Varanasi) e viveu no século XV. Através de seus poemas ficamos sabendo que era um tecelão, tendo a família, talvez, se convertido ao Islã para escapar de sua baixa casta no sistema social hindu. Em vários poemas, Kabir fala contra as castas, como faz também, com show more veemência, contra práticas muçulmanas. É definitivamente um poeta místico. Para ele, toda a existência é divina. Ame as árvores se quiser saber alguma coisa sobre a floresta. Ame as pessoas se quiser saber algo sobre Deus. Cada manifestação particular pode tornar-se uma janela, uma porta. Não seja obcecado demais pelas palavras: supere a palavra e dirija-se cada vez mais para o existencial. show less
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Works
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Rating
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ISBNs
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