Divided into four sections--North, South, East, and West--this anthology maps Bhakti literature from 100 BCE to the 20th century. Including a wide range of writings-from early poems to Siva, Alvar poets, Virashaiva poets, Varkaris, and Vaishnava poetry, to Panjabi songs, Bauls of Bengal, and Bengali Shakta lyrics-the anthology roughly sketches the four geographical compass points in terms of the significant sub-genres of Bhakti poetry associated with these regions. Apart from acclaimed poets such as Tukaram, Kabir, Mirabai, Tulsidas, Vidyapati, and Chandidas, the volume also includes works by some of the earliest practitioners like Tipputtolar (ca. 100 BCE-250 CE), Nakkirar (ca. 6th c.), and Mannikavacakar (9th c.). It also includes works of some later poets like Namdev (1270-1350), Rami (ca. 1440), and Dhurjati (16th c.) as well as more contemporary practitioners like Ramprasad Sen (1718-1775), Kamalakanta Bhattacarya (ca. 1769-1821), and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The poems, originally written in various vernacular lanaguges, have been translated by past masters like A.K. Ramanujan, as well as well-known practitioners like Vidya Dehejia, Susan Daniels, William J. Jackson, Dilip Chitre, Ananda Coomaraswamy, among others. With a detailed Introduction by Andrew Schelling, this volume has perceptive notes for poets and translators that provide valuable insights to their work. A special appendix Statements on Poetry adds special feature of this volume. With a glossary providing meaning to Sanskrit terms, and a bibliography, this volume gives a comprehensive view of the Bhakti movement.

The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature

Literature & Fiction

Schelling, Andrew

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Ktaadn's Lamp

Poetry

Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions

Erotic, rebellion, spiritual thirst, a strong hint of early feminism, and a steaming animal passion, these are what makes Mirabai's songs irrepressible four centuries after she sang them. To open this book is to get close to the oldest kind of song, sweet and bitter, sage and spontaneous. And to remember why we're on earth.

For Love of the Dark One:Song of Miraba

Mīrābāī

Arts & Photography

Hohm Press

Essays. In a handful of wild seeds taken from any one natural community, there is hidden the distillation of millions of years of coevolution of plants and animals. - Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan. This volume, the first in the Pleasure Boat Studio Chapbook Series, contains short essays on literature and philosophy: A Grammar, Avalokiteshvara, Rocky Flats, and the New York Times, Old and New Litigation Songs, and Allen Ginsberg Death Notes. Schelling teaches poetry, Sanskrit, and wilderness studies at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. His recent books, available from SPD, include THE CANE GROVES OF NARMADA RIVER: EROTIC POEMS OF OLD INDIA, SONGS OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF BUDDAH (with Anne Waldman), and THE ROAD TO OCOSINGO. This volume is the first in the Pleasure Boat Studios Chapbook Series.

The Handful of Seeds (Chapbook (Pleasure Boat Studio), No. 1.)

Pleasure Boat Studio

Written during travels in Mexico, from the immense capital city to the southern peasant villages of Chiapas, in the author's words "This is a journal of the trip, in mongrel mix of prose and verse. Its sense of form is much indebted to Japanese haibun, good style for jotting notes in a rucksack. I kept the writing deliberately loose. Haibun is always stricter, more keenly regimented in how it balances prose and terse lyric. Matsuo Basho is the poet who brought the haibun to it keenest development. . . . In English Basho's title is 'The Back Road to Oku.' On the back road to Ocosingo I heard the place names echo".

The Road To Ocosingo

Smokeproof Press

Poetry. Andrew Schelling's high county notebook is a contemplative fusing of nature journal and psychotropic poetry. Full of what the author calls "dream world distortions," this collection has "the detail and monumentality of bonsai trees and the sheer sweep of Shelly's Mont Blanc"--Michael McClure.

Two Elk

Small Pr Distribution

Presents a collection of poetry and verses, written more than two thousand years ago by some of the earliest known disciples of the Buddha, including works from the Therigathas, the oldest collection of poetry by women. Original.

Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Shambhala

"Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy." ―Rain Taxi "Schelling’s biography of Jaime de Angulo―'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things―presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California’s Native history. De Angulo’s isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." ―Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old-time stories―a bedrock of the literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo's linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific Coast. In each retelling, through each storyteller, stories are continually revivified, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast, weaving together the story of de Angulo's life with the story of the land and the people, languages, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied.

Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Counterpoint

Poetry. "Wonderful forays into the past, present, & future of the world's continents. One travels along with this poet's skilled eye and conscientious mind. It is a pleasure to receive OLD GROWTH—first sizable collection of poetry from Andrew Schelling, earthbound translator & accomplished essayist"—Joanne Kyger.

Old Growth: Selected Poems & Notebooks 1986-1994

Rodent Press

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The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature

Ktaadn's Lamp

For Love of the Dark One:Song of Miraba

The Handful of Seeds (Chapbook (Pleasure Boat Studio), No. 1.)

The Road To Ocosingo

Two Elk

Songs of the Sons and Daughters of Buddha

Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture

Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture

Old Growth: Selected Poems & Notebooks 1986-1994