Songs of Kabîr

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Kabir was an Indian poet in the 15th century. Songs of Kabir is the collection of his poetry, which first became accessible to the West in 1915. His deeply mystical poetry transcends specific religious ideology, and has thus touched a wide range of audiences.

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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 and cultures with such clarity. I am sure much credit goes to the translator.
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 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 show more 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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Canonical title
Songs of Kabîr
Alternate titles
100 Poems of Kabir
Original publication date
1915; 2011 (English: Mehrotra) (English: Mehrotra)
Original language
Hindi

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
891.4Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesModern Indic languages
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PK2095 .K3 .A2Language and LiteratureIndo-Iranian languages and literaturesIndo-Iranian philology and literatureIndo-Aryan languagesModern Indo-Aryan languagesParticular languages and dialectsHindi, Urdu, Hindustani languages andHindi, Hindustani literatures
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