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020			_a9780143464907
028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, 7, Ansari Road, New Delhi _c: TB401 _d: 16/05/2025
082			_a396 SUB
100			_aSubramaniam, Arundhathi.
245			_aWild Women _b: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry. _c/ Arundhathi Subramaniam.
260			_aMayfair _b: Grayson and Grayson _c, 2024.
300			_axxxv, 386p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b699
520			_aThe 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 about custodians of gender and faith. It is time to tune into their brazenness, their heartbreaking longing. Not just for their sake but for ours too. In this anthology of sacred poetry that arrives after the much-loved book, Eating God, 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, Bhakti 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.
650			_aSacred Indian Poetry
650			_aSeekers, Protagonists
650			_aWild Women
700			_aArundhathi Subramaniam (Ed.)
942			_cBOOK
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