Erotic Love Poems from India

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611807115
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Love Poems from India written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poets of classical India regarded love as the first and deepest of passions. Translator and scholar Andrew Schelling perfectly encapsulates the history and passion of eighth-century India in this collection. “A single stanza of the poet Amaru,” declared a ninth-century poetry critic, “may provide the taste of love equal to what’s found in whole volumes.” Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated here offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection, known in Sanskrit as the Amarushataka (“One Hundred Poems of Amaru”), was compiled in the eighth century and remains to this day one of India’s finest collections of love poetry. Legend connects the poetry’s authorship to King Amaru of Kashmir, while present-day scholars generally consider it an anthology of the verses of many poets.

Erotic Love Poems from India

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590300971
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Love Poems from India written by Amaru and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A single stanza of the poet Amaru," declared a ninth-century poetry critic, "may provide the taste of love equal to what's found in whole volumes." Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated here offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection, known in Sanskrit as the Amarushataka ("One Hundred Poems of Amaru"), was compiled in the eighth century and remains to this day one of India's finest collections of love poetry. It has never been fully translated into English poetry before. Legend connects the poetry's authorship to King Amaru of Kashmir, while present-day scholars generally consider it an anthology of the verses of many poets. Poet and translator Andrew Schelling's artful translations render the ancient verses with freshness and immediacy. Schelling's compelling introduction and afterword offer musings on the colorful background and history of the original Sanskrit text.

Love and The Turning Seasons

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619023520
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Love and The Turning Seasons by : Andrew Schelling

Download or read book Love and The Turning Seasons written by Andrew Schelling and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, India has excelled at erotic love poetry, and the genius of its devotional poetry often harnesses great energy and mystical insight. It is in fact often hard to tell whether the poets are offering poems of spiritual longing using the garment of love poetry, or writing erotic poems in the guise of devotion. Perhaps, in a country where erotic sculpture routinely ornaments its many temples and the gods are known for their explosive sexuality, this question has little meaning to these remarkable writers. In their devotional traditions, eroticism and mysticism seem inseparable. This wonderful selection spans 2,500 years, and includes work originally sung or recited by their well–known bards: Kabir, Mirabai, Lal Ded, Vidyapati and Tagore. There are also poems from the Upanishad, from ancient Sanskrit poetry and Punjab folk lyrics. The poets have largely emerged from the ranks of the dispossessed: leather workers, refuse collectors, maidservants, women, & orphans. Their vision is of a democratic society in which all voices count, much like American gospel and blues, Shaker songs, or the grand vision of Walt Whitman. Often they faced persecution for speaking candidly, or daring to speak of spiritual matters at all. The notes include profiles of these legendary lives. Several of these poets simply vanished, absorbed into a deity, or disappeared in a flash of purple lightening. A few produced miracles—most of them have clouds of mystery around them. Andrew Schelling has drawn on the work of 24 other translators, including Ezra Pound, Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, Jane Hirschfield and Denise Levertov, to build what will be the finest anthology of India's erotic and spiritual poetry for the general read ever assembled.

Indian Love Poems

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Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Love Poems by : Meena Alexander

Download or read book Indian Love Poems written by Meena Alexander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indian Love Poems is a gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora." "Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire - both male and female - in the intricate dance of existence."--Jacket.

Naked Soul

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ISBN 13 : 9780692265291
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis Naked Soul by : Salil Jha

Download or read book Naked Soul written by Salil Jha and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems" is an extraordinary storytelling in the form of erotic love poetry, speaking directly to the reader's heart through sensations that course throughout the body. This powerful collection of erotic and sensual love poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms -- from intense passionate sexual desire to seductive victory. There are love poems for every mood and sentimental feeling, for every phase of love you are experiencing whether you are with a partner or not. Read it slowly. Read a poem at a time, or two-or all at once-but give it time to sink into your heart. Read them again. Visualize. Let the poem show you what may be lying dormant in your own heart. Any poetry lover who loves deep symbolism, storytelling and musing over deep verses will find this book very touching. No matter which phase of love you are growing in currently, this book will serve to sail you further towards the endless ocean of love.

Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545460
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to read and appreciate the poems in English. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained. Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable poetic tradition.

When God is a Customer

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520080690
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis When God is a Customer by : Kṣētrayya

Download or read book When God is a Customer written by Kṣētrayya and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-04-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night? These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. That customer, it turns out, is the deity, whom the courtesan teases for his infidelities and cajoles into paying her more money. Brazen, autonomous, fully at home in her body, she merges her worldly knowledge with the deity's transcendent power in the act of making love. This volume is the first substantial collection in English of these Telugu writings, which are still part of the standard repertoire of songs used by classical South Indian dancers. A foreword provides context for the poems, investigating their religious, cultural, and historical significance. Explored, too, are the attempts to contain their explicit eroticism by various apologetic and rationalizing devices. The translators, who are poets as well as highly respected scholars, render the poems with intelligence and tenderness. Unusual for their combination of overt eroticism and devotion to God, these poems are a delight to read.

Some Unquenchable Desire

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834841908
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Some Unquenchable Desire by : Bhartrihari

Download or read book Some Unquenchable Desire written by Bhartrihari and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning translator finds surprisingly modern themes in a selection of erotic and religious stanzas from one of classical India's most celebrated poets. Although few facts are known about his life, the Indian poet Bhartrihari leaps from the page as a remarkably recognizable individual. Amidst a career as a linguist, courtier, and hermit, he used poetry to explore themes of love, desire, impermanence, despair, anger, and fear. “A thousand emotions, ideas, words, and rhythmic syllables stormed through him,” writes translator Andrew Schelling in an evocative introduction. “In particular he shows himself torn between sexual desire and a hunger to be free of failed love affairs and turbulent karma.” Schelling’s translation represents a rare opportunity for English-language readers to become acquainted with this fascinating poet. Attuned to Bhartrihari’s unique poetic sensibility, Schelling has produced a compelling, personally curated set of translations.

Grow Long, Blessed Night

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019512734X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Grow Long, Blessed Night by : Martha Ann Selby

Download or read book Grow Long, Blessed Night written by Martha Ann Selby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents new English translations of 150 erotic poems composed in India's three classic languages, Old Tamil, Sanskrit and Maharasti Prakit. The poems are selected from anthologies that date from as early as the first century C.E.

The Love Poems of John Donne

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The Love Poems of John Donne written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radha Sings

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727042658
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Radha Sings by : Kamla K. Kapur

Download or read book Radha Sings written by Kamla K. Kapur and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RADHA SINGS is a lyrical, narrative and dramatic series of erotic love poems from the feministic perspective of Radha, the female counterpart of the archetypical love couple of Indian mythology, Radha and Krishna. The Radha in these poems is an empowered modern woman unabashedly in touch with her own sexual, emotional and spiritual needs. Spiritually is but a continuum of her carnality. These poems move from the shifting complexity and range of modern romantic love, its ecstasies and conflicts, highs and lows, to a love of the divine. Through suffering and separation, Radha undergoes the highest transformation: becoming the object that she worships, a marriage that obliterates the distinction between subject and object.

Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493866
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry by : Linda Grant

Download or read book Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry written by Linda Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

The Poetry of Sex

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241962641
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Sex by : Sophie Hannah

Download or read book The Poetry of Sex written by Sophie Hannah and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetry of Sex - a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology by acclaimed poet Sophie Hannah 'We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border to the edge of Mexico . . .' It's hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to conclusion and consequence. And little has changed over the centuries, as Sophie Hannah's anthology vividly demonstrates, from Catullus pleading with Lesbos to Walt Whitman singing the body electric. Moods and attitudes may vary but the drive persists as does the desire to write about it. Sophie Hannah's selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement. It is essential reading for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere. Sophie Hannah has published five collections of poetry. Her fifth Pessimism for Beginners was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award in 2007. Her Selected Poems is published by Penguin (revised edition, 2013). She is also the writer of bestselling psychological crime fiction, most recently The Carrier. Her novels have been translated into 24 languages. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Cambridge with her husband and children, and is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College.

He Spoke of Love

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674276515
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis He Spoke of Love by : Biharilal

Download or read book He Spoke of Love written by Biharilal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love’s pleasures and sorrows. The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal’s Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with archetypal hero and heroine motifs that bridge divine and worldly love. He Spoke of Love brims with romantic rivalries, clandestine trysts, and the bittersweet sorrow of separated lovers. This new translation presents four hundred couplets from the enduring seventeenth-century classic, showcasing the poet’s ingenuity and virtuosity.

Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome (Second Edition)

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Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516547999
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome (Second Edition) written by Stephen Bertman and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erotic desire is as old as the human race and erotic literature as old as civilization. With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today: new or seasoned, obsessive or unrequited, heterosexual or homosexual, noble or illicit. Students learn the cultural events that led to a grand flourish of erotic poetry in Greece and Rome during the Archaic and Hellenistic periods, as well as the "Golden Age of Rome." Readers traverse the varied works of over 35 different poets: from the epic interludes of Homer and Vergil to the personal lyrics of Sappho and Catullus, from the playful admonitions of Ovid to the dark elegies of Propertius, from a woman's meditations on romance scribbled on a fragile papyrus in Egypt to anonymous verses about lost love scrawled on a crumbling wall in Pompeii. By introducing the reader to the greatest poets of the ancient world, this compelling collection demonstrates why ancient love poems have stood the test of time and continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. Complete with introductions, cultural context, and engaging analysis for each selected work, along with thought-provoking questions to stimulate classroom discussion, Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome is an ideal choice for survey courses in classics, world literature, humanities, sexuality, and gender studies.

Erotic Poems

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0871406594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Poems written by e. e. cummings and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings’s original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage. from “16” may i feel said he (i’ll squeal said she just once said he) it’s fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she

Soulwhisperings

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ISBN 13 : 9780692771280
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Book Synopsis Soulwhisperings by : Tina Benson

Download or read book Soulwhisperings written by Tina Benson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has a unique function in the human psyche. It reaches down into the soul of the reader with a loving caress and says, "I see you. I hear your longing and desire, your heartbreak and your sorrow. I am your friend. Let me walk beside you." In the same tradition as the great devotional poetry of Rumi, Rilke, and Hafiz, Tina Benson's rich collection of erotic and devotional love poems and writings is such a friend. As you savor each poem let her walk beside you, and may you hear your own soul singing.